Ausgewählte Zitate der Englischen Literatur
Agatha Christie
Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin
the world until they are whole once more.
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
These little grey cells. It is up to them.
Very few of us are what we seem.
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
Charles Dickens
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with
their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
We forge the chains we wear in life.
Aldous Huxley
An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
Dream in a pragmatic way.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are.
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Wlliam Shakespeare
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Death is a fearful thing.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Nothing can come of nothing.
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Speak low, if you speak love.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
To be, or not to be, that is the question.
What's done can't be undone.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
I can resist everything except temptation.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
True friends stab you in the front.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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