Famous quotes

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

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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Falsehood is as old as the tree of Eden.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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We are alone, we live alone, and we die alone. Only through love and friendship can we create the illusion, for a moment, that we are not alone.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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Many people are too polite to talk with their mouth full, but they don't mind doing it with their head empty.

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells

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Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells

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There is no intelligence where there is no change or need for change.

Herbert George Wells

Herbert George Wells

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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (...), perfection is the simple negation of that marginal and inescapable inaccuracy which is the mysterious and intimate quality of Being.

Franz Werfel

Franz Werfel

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For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, any explanation is too much.

John Wesley

John Wesley

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Gain all you can; save all you can; give all you can.

Mae West

Mae West

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When I'm good, I'm good; when I'm bad, I'm even better.

Mae West

Mae West

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I have lost my reputation. But I don't miss it.