Authors Quotes

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
-- Anne Rice

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
-- William Shakespeare

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
-- Henry David Thoreau

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
-- Mark Twain

And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere.
-- HG Wells

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde