Quotes

Words worth keeping

2,684 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?

— J.K. Rowling
General

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

— Taylor Swift
Inspirational

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

— Cassandra Clare
General

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

— Abraham Lincoln
Life Friendship

Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Positive Thinking Success

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

— Victor Hugo
Positive Thinking

If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.

— Lemony Snicket
Humor

You never fail until you stop trying.

— Albert Einstein
Inspirational

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

— Santosh Kalwar
Inspirational Love Relationships Happiness

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

— J. K. Rowling
Death & Loss

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

— John Green
General

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

— Orhan Pamuk
Books & Writing

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

— Paulo Coelho
General

but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

— Jane Austen
Books & Writing

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

— Nicolas Chamfort
Life Faith & Religion

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.