Category: Quotes

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

John Ruskin

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

— Katherine Paterson, The Spying Heart 1989

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author. All Things Considered, “On Running After One’s Hat,” (1908).

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author. All Things Considered, “On Running After One’s Hat,” (1908)

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author. All Things Considered, “On Running After One’s Hat,” (1908).

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936), British author. All Things Considered, “On Running After One’s Hat,” (1908).

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish artist. quoted in Gertrude Stein, Picasso, p. 27 (1938, repr. 1959).

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 29 (1847).

Talent isn’t genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won’t be a commonplace dauber, so I don’t intend to try any more.

Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888), U.S. author. Amy March, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869).