Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Paul Charles Bourget

Paul Charles Bourget

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One must live as one thinks, otherwise one ends up thinking as one has lived.

Paul Charles Bourget

Paul Charles Bourget

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What certain men find most difficult to forgive in a woman is that they find consolation after having been mocked by them.

Paul Charles Bourget

Paul Charles Bourget

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There is only one way to be happy thanks to the heart, and that is to not have it.

Habib Bourguiba

Habib Bourguiba

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Fortunate is the man who laughs at himself, for he will never be short of amusement.

Émile Boutroux

Émile Boutroux

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The law is the bed through which the stream of facts flows.

Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles

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For those of us who do not have a religion, our God is work.

Brian Bowling

Brian Bowling

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Diplomacy gets you out of a problem that tact would have kept you from getting into.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you can vote before obeying the orders.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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An intellectual is someone who says a simple thing in a complicated way. An artist is someone who says a complicated thing in a simple way.

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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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A coward is a man capable of foreseeing the future. A brave man is almost always a man without imagination.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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Love? Come on, people don't want love; people want to succeed, and one of the things they can do that is in love.