Csernai Quotes & Sayings

Not that I disclaim the fullest responsibility for his opinions and for those of all my characters, pleasant and unpleasant. They are all right from their several points of view; and their points of view are, for the dramatic moment, mine also. This may puzzle the people who believe that there is such a thing as an absolutely right point of view, usually their own. — George Bernard Shaw

There are no coincidences. And everything means something. — Cate Tiernan

There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered. — Henry Ward Beecher

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?"
Because you would never leave me. — Alexandra Bracken

I do consider myself to be something of a pretentious wanker. — Nicky Wire

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor — John Cleese

I have my own way of dividing people, as I suppose most of us have. There are those whom I can talk to, and those whom I can't. — Margaret Oliphant

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work. — Temple Grandin

My daughter Penelope has just looked over my shoulder to see what I have done so far. She remarks that it is beautifully written, and every word of it true. But she points out one objection. She says what I have done so far isn't in the least what I was wanted to do. I am asked to tell the story of the Diamond and, instead of that, I have been telling the story of my own self. Curious, and quite beyond me to account for. I wonder whether the gentlemen who make a business and a living out of writing books, ever find their own selves getting in the way of their subjects, like me? If they do, I can feel for them. In the meantime, here is another false start, and more waste of good writing-paper. What's to be done now? Nothing that I know of, except for you to keep your temper, and for me to begin it all over again for the third time. — Wilkie Collins

People are not who they say but rather who their actions reveal them to be ... Be smart about it. Don't fall for the bullshit. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it. — George Mason

I loved you: and, it may be, from my soul
The former love has never gone away,
But let it not recall to you my dole;
I wish not sadden you in any way.
I loved you silently, without hope, fully,
In diffidence, in jealousy, in pain;
I loved you so tenderly and truly,
As let you else be loved by any man. — Alexander Pushkin