Famous quotes

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

Diogenes of Sinope

Diogenes of Sinope

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Other dogs only bite their enemies, while I also bite my friends in order to save them.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

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The world is full of statesmen whom democracy has degraded, turning them into politicians.

John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos

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We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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I have never cheated on my wife. It's not a merit: I love her.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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The pyramids are the best example that, in any time and place, workers tend to work less.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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Sympathy, an animal passion, is also a selfish passion. But it remains our best opportunity to escape from selfishness.

Georges Duhamel

Georges Duhamel

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When you read a book with a certain state of mind, you only find interpretations of that state.

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

Alexandre Dumas (fils)

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We must love, no matter who, no matter how, as long as we love.

Aeschylus of Eleusis

Aeschylus of Eleusis

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Not even sitting by the fire in his home can man escape the sentence of his destiny.

Fernando Fernán Gomez

Fernando Fernán Gomez

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Six, eight million viewers. These are figures that no theater director or novelist could ever dream of, let alone Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides.

Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

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Nothing disturbs the past centuries. We cannot elicit a sigh from the old.