All Quotes
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.Jane Austen
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.Dorothy Sayers
This is on me.Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone
Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.Sir Francis Bacon
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.Mary Wilson Little
When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney