Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Famous Quotes
"My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
"I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine."
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Quotations
"The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty."
Alain
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Theresa
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
Jerome K Jerome
Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
Terence
"From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of 8,000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone."
Barbara Ehrenreich
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
W Somerset Maugham
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example."
Louis D Brandeis
All appears to change when we change.
Henri Frdric Amiel
"The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way."
Lyndon B Johnson
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
Horace