Famous quotes

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

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

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What good is wit when it does not entertain us? There is nothing more tiresome than a sad wit.

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

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In people's lives there are great mysteries and love is one of the most inaccessible.

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

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Death is an old story and yet it always feels new to someone.

Alan Turing

Alan Turing

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We can know little of the future, but enough to realize that there is much to be done.

Lana Turner

Lana Turner

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The only bad thing about men is that I don't always have them close to me.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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No one rids themselves of a habit or a vice by throwing it out of the window at once; it must be taken out through the staircase, step by step.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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A man with a new idea is a madman until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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The 28th of December reminds us of what we are during the other 364 days of the year.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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When I was younger, I could remember everything, whether it had happened or not.