Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

— Albert Einstein
Humor

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

— Oscar Levant
Humor

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart... I'll always be with you.

— Carter Crocker
Self & Identity

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

— Plato
Kindness

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

— George R. R. Martin
Books & Writing

Where there is love there is life.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Life Love

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

— Richelle Mead
Relationships

May you live every day of your life.

— Jonathan Swift
Inspirational Life Philosophy Wisdom

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

— Thomas Szasz
Inspirational Humor

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

— Lemony Snicket
General

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

— Oscar Wilde
General

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky
Truth Love

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Art & Beauty

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

— Marilyn Monroe
General

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

— George Orwell
Inspirational

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.