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Quotations from famous writers. 29 people, 1,756 quotes.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963151 quotes
Mark Twain1835–1910151 quotes
Dave Barryborn 1947100 quotes
Oscar Wilde1854–1900173 quotes
G. K. Chesterton1874–193694 quotes
Dr. Seuss1904–199112 quotes
Robert A. Heinlein1907–198834 quotes
William Shakespeare1564–1616335 quotes
Ernest Hemingway1899–196151 quotes
J. R. R. Tolkien1892–197316 quotes
T. S. Eliot1888–196549 quotes
H. L. Mencken1880–195663 quotes
Henry David Thoreau1817–186281 quotes
Dante Alighieri1265–132114 quotes
George Orwell1903–195039 quotes
Tom Clancy1947–20136 quotes
Samuel Johnson1709–178499 quotes
Emily Dickinson1830–188637 quotes
Ian Fleming1908–19644 quotes
Charles Dickens1812–187060 quotes
Kurt Vonnegut1922–200745 quotesSHSydney J. Harris1917–198612 quotes
Elbert Hubbard1856–191542 quotes
Anne Frank1929–19455 quotes
Goncourt brothers3 quotes
Jonathan Swift1667–174536 quotes
Euripides481–407 BC26 quotes
J. K. Rowlingborn 19657 quotes
James A. Michener1907–199711 quotesPopular quotes
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), Ch. VI: “Charity”Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “A Defence of Patriotism”Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988Glory Road (1963)A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain1835–1910More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson- C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man
- C. S. Lewis1898–1963“Is Theology Poetry?” (1945)
