Quotes and quotations on all subjects, from all countries, and from today and yesterday

Share this page:

Quotes arranged by AUTHOR
A
John Adams • Joseph Addison • Aeschylus • Aesop • Edward Albee • Akbar the Great • Woody Allen • Sherwood Anderson • Kofi Annan • Apuleius • Aristophanes • Aristotle • W. H. Auden • St Augustine of Hippo • Jane Austen

B
Francis Bacon • J. G. Ballard • Honoré de Balzac • Matsuo Basho • Frederic Bastiat • Charles Baudelaire • Samuel Beckett • Saul Bellow • John Berryman • Ambrose Bierce • Otto von Bismarck • William Blake • Giovanni Boccaccio • Andrew Bolt • Bertolt Brecht • Charlotte Bronte • Emily Bronte • Pearl S. Buck • John Bunyan • Anthony Burgess • Edmund Burke • William Burroughs • Samuel Butler • Lord Byron

C
Julius Caesar • Michael Caine • Albert Camus • Truman Capote • George Carlin • Cato the Elder • Catullus • Constantine Cavafy • Louis Ferdinand Céline • Miguel de Cervantes • Raymond Chandler • Geoffrey Chaucer • Winston Churchill • Cicero • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Wilkie Collins • Confucius • William Congreve • Joseph Conrad • Calvin Coolidge • James Fenimore Cooper • Hernando Cortez • Stephen Crane • John Curtin

D
Dante Alighieri • Daniel Defoe • Demosthenes • Thomas De Quincey • René Descartes • Charles Dickens • Emily Dickinson • Benjamin Disraeli • John Donne • John Dos Passos • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Frederick Douglass • Theodore Dreiser

E
Thomas Alva Edison • Albert Einstein • Dwight D. Eisenhower • George Eliot • T. S. Eliot • Queen Elizabeth I • Ralph Ellison • Ralph Waldo Emerson • Desiderius Erasmus • Euripides

F
Hans Fallada • William Faulkner • Henry Fielding • W. C. Fields • Robert Fisk • F. Scott Fitzgerald • E. M. Forster • Francis of Assisi • Anatole France • Benjamin Franklin • Sigmund Freud • Robert Frost • Carlos Fuentes

G
Mahatma Gandhi • Paul Gauguin • John Gay • Allen Ginsberg • Jean Giraudoux • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Oliver Goldsmith • Samuel Goldwyn • Cary Grant • Graham Greene

H
Thomas Hardy • Bob Hawke • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Ernest Hemingway • William Ernest Henley • King Henry VIII of England • Herodotus • Hermann Hesse • Thomas Hobbes • Homer • Horace • Aldous Huxley

I
Henrik Ibsen • Ignatius of Loyola • Eugène Ionesco • Washington Irving • Christopher Isherwood • Kazuo Ishiguro

J
Henry James • Thomas Jefferson • Jerome K. Jerome • St Jerome • Chalmers Johnson • Samuel Johnson • Ben Jonson • Janis Joplin • James Joyce • Carl Jung • Juvenal

K
Franz Kafka • Immanuel Kant • Nikos Kazantzakis • Paul Keating • John Keats • Helen Keller • John F. Kennedy • Jack Kerouac • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Rudyard Kipling • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

L
Charles Lamb • Bartomolé de Las Casas • D. H. Lawrence • John le Carré • Mikhail Lermontov • Carlo Levi • Sinclair Lewis • David Livingstone • Livy • King Louis XIV of France • Malcolm Lowry • Lucan • Lucretius • Martin Luther

M
Niccolo Machiavelli • Ted Mack • Bill Maher • Norman Mailer • Christopher Marlowe • Thomas Mann • José Martí • Martial • Groucho Marx • Herman Melville • H. L. Mencken • Robert Menzies • Henry Miller • John Milton • Molière • Michel de Montaigne • Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

N
Vladimir Nabokov • Sir Charles Napier • Napoleon Bonaparte • Jawaharlal Nehru • Pablo Neruda • Gérard de Nerval • Isaac Newton

O
Eugene O'Neill • José Ortega y Gasset • George Orwell • Aleksandr Ostrovsky • Ovid • Wilfred Owen

P
Camille Paglia • Thomas Paine (Tom Paine) • Dorothy Parker • Blaise Pascal • Cesare Pavese • Samuel Pepys • Pericles • Petronius • Philip II of Spain • John Pilger • Harold Pinter • Plato • Plautus • Pliny the Elder • Pliny the Younger • Plutarch • Edgar Allan Poe • Alexander Pope • Ezra Pound • Gareth Powell • Propertius • Marcel Proust • Thomas Pynchon

Q
Mary Quant • Salvatore Quasimodo • Dan Quayle • Raymond Queneau • Francisco de Quevedo • Arthur Quiller-Couch • Quintilian

R
François Rabelais • David Ricardo • Richard the Lionheart (Richard I of England) • Arthur Rimbaud • José Rizal • Paul Craig Roberts • Theodore Roethke • Will Rogers • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • Philip Roth • Rumi • Salman Rushdie • Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)

S
Carl Sagan • J. D. Salinger • Sallust • George Santayana • Sappho • Albert Schweitzer • Walter Scott • George Seferis • Seneca the Younger • Shaka • William Shakespeare • George Bernard Shaw • Percy Bysshe Shelley • Richard Brinsley Sheridan • Philip Sidney • Upton Sinclair • Adam Smith • Tobias Smollett • Socrates • Sophocles • Edmund Spenser • Baruch Spinoza • Richard Steele • Gertrude Stein • John Steinbeck • Laurence Sterne • Wallace Stevens • Robert Louis Stevenson • Suetonius • Sun Tzu • Jonathan Swift

T
Tacitus • Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand • Terence • William Makepeace Thackeray • Dylan Thomas • Hunter S. Thompson • Henry David Thoreau • Thucydides • James Thurber • Leo Tolstoy • Anthony Trollope • Mark Twain

U
Liv Ullmann • Björn Ulvaeus • Miguel de Unamuno • Sigrid Undset • John Updike • Peter Ustinov

V
Paul Valéry • Paul Verlaine • Jules Verne • Gore Vidal • Alfred de Vigny • François Villon • Virgil • Voltaire

W
William Wallace • Horace Walpole • Peter Walsh • George Washington • Evelyn Waugh • H. G. Wells • Mae West • Nathanael West • Edith Wharton • Gough Whitlam • Walt Whitman • Oscar Wilde • Tennessee Williams • William Carlos Williams • Virginia Woolf • William Wordsworth

X
Francis Xavier • Xenophanes of Colophon • Xenophon (Historian) • Nick Xenophon • Francisco de Xerez (Francisco de Jerez) • King Xerxes I

Y
"Weird Al" Yankovic • W. B. Yeats • Boris Yeltsin • Yevgeny Yevtushenko • Edward Young • Marguerite Yourcenar

Z
Yevgeny Zamyatin • Frank Zappa • Franco Zeffirelli • Georgy Zhukov • Howard Zinn • Emile Zola • Stefan Zweig


Quotes arranged by SUBJECT
A B C
Ability • Acting • Action • Advertising • Advice • Age • Agreement • Beauty • Books • Change • Charity

D E F
Democracy • Dreams • Education • Equality • Farewell • Freedom • Friendship • Future

G H I J
Gifts • Happiness • Hope • Ideas • Joy

K L M N
Kindness • Life • Love • Medicine • Money • Nations

O P Q
Opportunities • Peace • Quality

R S T
Reading • Success • Travel • Truth

U V W X Y Z
Understanding • Value • Wisdom • Xenophobia • Yoga • Zeal


Share this page: