Quotes

Words worth keeping

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

Who, being loved, is poor?

— Oscar Wilde
Love

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

— Dodie Smith
Love

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

— George Orwell
Nature & World

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

— Michael Ondaatje
Books & Writing

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

— Rick Riordan
Inspirational Wisdom

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.

— Roy T. Bennett
Inspirational Life Sadness & Pain Education & Knowledge Time

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

— Sun Tzu
Life Society & Politics

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

— John Lennon
Dreams

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

— J. K. Rowling
Inspirational Friendship

So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that.""Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out the car window if you feel like it.""I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever.

— Cassandra Clare
Humor

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

— Isabel Allende
Books & Writing

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome."Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

— Sarah Dessen
Relationships

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

— Sharon Salzberg
Inspirational Life Love Wisdom

In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.

— Rick Riordan
Humor Books & Writing

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.

— e.e. cummings
General

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.