Writers & wits

all 22 quotes in this pack

• “I can resist everything except temptation.”
• “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
• “There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
• “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
• “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
• “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.”
• “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
• “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”
• “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
• “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
• “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
• “Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
• “No man is an island, entire of itself.”
• “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
• “Brevity is the soul of wit.”
• “Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”
• “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.”
• “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
• “To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
• “Curiouser and curiouser!”
• “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”
• “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”