Quotes

Words worth keeping

536 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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Silence is so freaking loud

— Sarah Dessen
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To survive, you must tell stories.

— Umberto Eco
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All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope

— Alexandre Dumas
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Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

— John Green
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God alert!" Blackjack yelled. "It's the wine dude!Mr. D sighed in exasperation. "The next person, or horse, who calls me the 'wine dude' will end up in a bottle of Merlot!

— Rick Riordan
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There are much worse games to play.

— Suzanne Collins
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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

— Stephen R. Covey
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Don't let the muggles get you down.

— J.K. Rowling
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

— Aristotle
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

— George Orwell
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
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I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

— J.K. Rowling
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I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

— H.L. Mencken
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

— George Orwell
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Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

— William Shakespeare
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World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.