Bestidnost Quotes & Sayings

We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head. — Mark Twain

When did you trust someone to hold a truth as carefully as you did? — Martine Murray

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. — Louise Erdrich

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. — E. M. Forster

The fact that man never is satisfied with any stage of his finite development, the fact that nothing finite can hold him, although finitude is his destiny, indicates the indissoluble relation of everything finite to being-itself. — Paul Tillich

Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a very good writer and Proust is a great artist. Katherine Anne Porter was an extremely good writer and Willa Cather was a great artist. — Truman Capote

Mick Jagger's fans bought records with their allowances. Sinatra's people bought them out of wages. — Pete Hamill