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- 10-May-93 - 1 quotes
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- 1746 - 1 quotes
- 1913 - 1 quotes
- 1955 - 1 quotes
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- 1984 (1949) - 1 quotes
- 2008 Harvard University Commencement Address - 5 quotes
- 24 Jan 1667 - 1 quotes
- 28-Mar-57 - 2 quotes
- 29-Apr-93 - 1 quotes
- A Book of Burlesques (1920) - 1 quotes
- about Robert Redford - 1 quotes
- About the character Elizabeth Bennett from her novel Pride and Prejudice. Letter, January 29, 1813, to her sister, Cassandra. - 1 quotes
- Absalom and Achitophel - 13 quotes
- acceptance speech - 1 quotes
- Accepting Nobel Prize, 1962 - 3 quotes
- Achieving The Impossible - A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth. (2010) - 3 quotes
- Adam Bede - 2 quotes
- Address to Cape Town Press Club, 13 May 2011 - 1 quotes
- Address to the House of Lords (19 November 2010) - 2 quotes
- Address to the University of the Arts Class of 2012 - 9 quotes
- A Defence of Poetry - 1 quotes
- A Dog Has Died - 2 quotes
- Adventures in Contentment - 2 quotes
- A Farewell to Arms (1929) - 1 quotes
- A Farewell to Tobacco - 1 quotes
- Against Interpretation - 1 quotes
- Age Is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life - 1 quotes
- A Grief Observed - 5 quotes
- A Lament. - 2 quotes
- Alcmene. Frag. 100. - 1 quotes
- Alexander. Frag. 44. - 1 quotes
- Alexander's Feast - 5 quotes
- Alice in Wonderland - 1 quotes
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - 3 quotes
- A Light in the Attic - 1 quotes
- All for Love. Act iv. Sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- All for Love. Prologue. - 1 quotes
- All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 2. - 1 quotes
- Alone With Everybody - 1 quotes
- Alope. Frag. 109. - 1 quotes
- A Man Without A Country - 2 quotes
- A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 618, Knopf (1949) - 1 quotes
- "American Literature — Dr. Channing," Edinburgh Review, (October 1829) - 1 quotes
- American Notebooks - 1 quotes
- A Midsummer Night's Dream - 5 quotes
- Amores, III, xi, 39. - 1 quotes
- Amores (The Loves), I, ix, 46. - 1 quotes
- An Autobiography - 1 quotes
- Andrea del Sarto (1855) - 1 quotes
- An Enemy of the People - 1 quotes
- An Essay on Man (1733) Epistle 3 - 1 quotes
- An Ideal Husband - 1 quotes
- Animal Farm (1945) - 1 quotes
- Anna Karenina - 2 quotes
- Anonymous - 1 quotes
- Antony and Cleopatra - 2 quotes
- A Passage to India (1924) - 1 quotes
- "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859) - 1 quotes
- "Apollo and the Fates" (1887) - 1 quotes
- AppleMasters - 1 quotes
- Arcadia - 1 quotes
- A Room of One's Own (1929) - 2 quotes
- Arrowsmith - 1 quotes
- Ars Poetica - 1 quotes
- Ars Poetica. 102. - 1 quotes
- Art and Antiquity, III, 1 (1821) - 1 quotes
- as freedom is a breakfasthood - 1 quotes
- A Shropshire Lad XL - 1 quotes
- A Shropshire Lad XXII - 1 quotes
- As I Lay Dying (1930) - 2 quotes
- A Soul's Tragedy (1846) - 1 quotes
- As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) - 1 quotes
- As quoted in National Observer (3 February 1964) - 1 quotes
- As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961) - 1 quotes
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1949) - 1 quotes
- A Summary of Lord Lyttelton's Advice - 1 quotes
- As You Like It - 7 quotes
- A Tale of Two Cities - 4 quotes
- A Tale of Two Cities (first line) - 1 quotes
- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - 1 quotes
- A Turbulent, Seditious, and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628 - 1688 (1988) - 1 quotes
- "A Village Commune," (1881) - 1 quotes
- A Walk to Remember - 1 quotes
- A Wish - 1 quotes
- A Woman of No Importance - 1 quotes
- Back to Methuselah - 1 quotes
- Back to Methuselah, Part I, Act I (1921) - 1 quotes
- Bad pick-up lines - 1 quotes
- Balaustion's Adventure (1871) - 1 quotes
- Ballad of the Tempest - 1 quotes
- Bear In There - 1 quotes
- "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Don Allen (1958) - 3 quotes
- Bells and Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics: Count Gismond (1842) - 1 quotes
- Benchley's Law of Distinction - 1 quotes
- Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) - 1 quotes
- Biographia Literaria (1817) - 1 quotes
- Blue Shoe - 1 quotes
- Books - 1 quotes
- Brighton Beach Memoirs - 4 quotes
- Britannia Rediviva. Line 208. - 1 quotes
- Broca's Brain (1979) - 1 quotes
- Brutus, act II, scene I (1730). - 1 quotes
- Bumper Stickers - 10 quotes
- Burke and the Edinburgh phrenologists. The Atlas (15 Feb 1829) - 1 quotes
- Buy my Flowers. - 1 quotes
- Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day - 1 quotes
- Catch-22 - 2 quotes
- Cato. Act ii. Sc. 1. - 2 quotes
- Cato. Act i. Sc. 1. - 2 quotes
- Cato. Act i. Sc. 4. - 4 quotes
- Cato, Act I, Scene 2 (1712) - 1 quotes
- Cato. Act iv. Sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- Cato. Act iv. Sc. 4. - 3 quotes
- Cato. Act v. Sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- Cato. Act v. Sc. 4. - 2 quotes
- Cause and Effect - 1 quotes
- Caxtoniana: Hints on Mental Culture. - 1 quotes
- Chapter 52 - 1 quotes
- Character and Opinion in the United States (1920) - 1 quotes
- Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823) - 1 quotes
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 1 quotes
- chat at bn.com - September 22, 1997 - 1 quotes
- Chat, June 17, 1998 - 1 quotes
- "Chesuncook" (1858) - 1 quotes
- Children (1858) - 1 quotes
- City Aphorisms (1985) - 1 quotes
- City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993). - 2 quotes
- City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994). - 2 quotes
- City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987) - 1 quotes
- City Aphorisms, New York (1984) - 1 quotes
- City Aphorisms, Thirteenth Selection, New York (1994). - 1 quotes
- Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) autobiography - 1 quotes
- Colombe's Birthday (1844) - 1 quotes
- Come, send round the Wine. - 1 quotes
- Commencement address at Barnard College (May 1979) - 1 quotes
- Comment - 1 quotes
- "Common Places," No. 1, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823) - 1 quotes
- "Common Places," No. 60, The Literary Examiner (September - December 1823) - 1 quotes
- Comus - 1 quotes
- "Confessions" (1864) - 1 quotes
- Conjugal Precepts - 1 quotes
- Contact - 6 quotes
- Cosmos (1980) - 3 quotes
- Crossroads at Twilight - 1 quotes
- Cymon and Iphigenia - 5 quotes
- Dangling Man (1944) - 1 quotes
- Daniel Deronda - 4 quotes
- Death of a Salesman (1949) - 1 quotes
- Death of the Heart (1938) - 1 quotes
- Denis Healy (1917- ) - 1 quotes
- Devotions XVII - 1 quotes
- Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (l763). - 1 quotes
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - 8 quotes
- Discours sur l'Homme. Discours 3. - 1 quotes
- 'Don Juan' Canto the Sixth - 1 quotes
- douglasadams.com forum - 1 quotes
- 'Douglas Adams on Microsoft' - 1 quotes
- Dramatis Personae (1864) - 1 quotes
- Driftwood (1857) - 1 quotes
- Eclogues - 1 quotes
- Eggs, Beans and Crumpets - 1 quotes
- El Dorado (Chapter VI of Virginibus Puerisque and Other Essays) - 1 quotes
- Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 15. - 1 quotes
- Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. Line 70. - 1 quotes
- Eleonora, Line 315. - 1 quotes
- Emma - 24 quotes
- Epistles. i. 12, 19. - 1 quotes
- Epistle to Congreve. Line 19. - 1 quotes
- Epistle to Congreve. Line 72. - 1 quotes
- Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton. Line 92. - 1 quotes
- Épître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs (1770) - 1 quotes
- Essay, 1952 - 1 quotes
- Essay "Lewis Carroll" (1939) - 1 quotes
- Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 325. - 1 quotes
- Essay on "Love" in letter, September 1852, to Harrison Blake - 1 quotes
- Essays, 'Character,' 1844 - 1 quotes
- Essays: First Series (1841) Essay XII, 'Art' - 1 quotes
- Essays: First Series (1841), "Friendship" - 1 quotes
- Essays, First Series, "Self-Reliance" - 1 quotes
- Essays: Second Series, New England Reformers (1844) - 1 quotes
- Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. vii. - 1 quotes
- Eugene Aram. Book i. Chap. x. - 1 quotes
- Fame, Glory, and Other Things on my To-do List - 2 quotes
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - 1 quotes
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream - 1 quotes
- Felix Holt (1866) - 1 quotes
- Finnegans Wake (1939; second edition 1950) - 1 quotes
- First published in Ms. (1986). - 1 quotes
- Flight to Arras - 1 quotes
- For the One Who Would Take Man's Life in His Hands - 1 quotes
- Four Things - 1 quotes
- Franny and Zooey - 3 quotes
- gamecenter.com - 1 quotes
- GamesMania Interview - 3 quotes
- Garden of Eden - 1 quotes
- Gaston in a letter to Mme. De l'Estorade, in Letters of Two Brides - 1 quotes
- George Dandin. Act i. Sc. 19. - 1 quotes
- Good Enough Mothers, ch. 3 (1993). - 1 quotes
- Go where Glory waits thee. - 1 quotes
- Great Expectations - 4 quotes
- Green Eggs and Ham (1960) - 2 quotes
- Hale is said to have delcared this on the gallows - 1 quotes
- Hamlet - 14 quotes
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - 7 quotes
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - 1 quotes
- Hartley's First Law - 1 quotes
- Heartbeat - 1 quotes
- Heartbreak House, Act 1 - 1 quotes
- Heart of Darkness - 1 quotes
- Heller's Law - 1 quotes
- Henry IV Part I, 5:1 - 1 quotes
- Henry IV, Part II, Act IV, sc. 4. - 1 quotes
- Henry V, Act III - 1 quotes
- Henry V, Act I, sc. 2. - 1 quotes
- Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- Henry VI, Part III, Act III, sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- Here Comes Everybody: An Introduction to James Joyce for the Ordinary Reader (1965) - 4 quotes
- Here on Earth (unconfirmed) - 1 quotes
- Heroides (The Heroines), II, 85.
Alternate translation: "The result justifies the deed." - 1 quotes
- Hippolytus. Frag. 436. - 1 quotes
- Horace (1640) - 1 quotes
- Horton Hatches the Egg (1940) - 1 quotes
- Horton Hears a Who! (1954) - 3 quotes
- House of Commons, 18 June 1940 - 1 quotes
- How Right You Are, Jeeves - 1 quotes
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957) - 1 quotes
- Human Life (1819) - 6 quotes
- Hungarian wedding toast - 1 quotes
- Hyperion (1839) - 1 quotes
- i am so glad and very - 1 quotes
- I Am to My Own Heart Merely a Serf - 1 quotes
- "I am widely regarded as the ghost of a writer," 1977 essay, - 1 quotes
- I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! - 1 quotes
- I 'd be a Butterfly. - 1 quotes
- I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You - 1 quotes
- if you like my poems let them - 1 quotes
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) - 1 quotes
- i like my body when it is with your - 1 quotes
- Imitation of Horace - 4 quotes
- Impressions of Theophrastus Such, chapter 4. - 1 quotes
- In diary - 2 quotes
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849) - 1 quotes
- in 'Philistine' December 1909, often attributed to Frank Ward O'Malley - 1 quotes
- "In Praise of Dissent", New York Times, 16 December 1956 - 1 quotes
- "Inspiration," Letters and Social Aims (1876) - 1 quotes
- interview published in the Ontario Review - 1 quotes
- Interview with Don Swaim (1987) - 1 quotes
- Interview with the Vampire - 3 quotes
- In the Beauty of the Lilies - 2 quotes
- introducing Winston Churchill, New York City, December 12, 1900 - 1 quotes
- Introductio ad prudentiam: or, Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, Tending to Prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life - 1 quotes
- Invitation - 1 quotes
- Iphigenia in Tauris. 721. - 1 quotes
- Irish Blessing - 1 quotes
- Isle of Beauty. - 1 quotes
- Jacqueline. Stanza 1. - 1 quotes
- Jacqueline. Stanza 3. - 1 quotes
- Jeeves and the Impending Doom (short story) - 1 quotes
- Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit (short story) - 1 quotes
- Jitterbug Perfume - 3 quotes
- "Jochanan Hakkadosh" (1883) - 1 quotes
- Joe Jones - 1 quotes
- Journal entry (November 1951) - 1 quotes
- Journals, entry for Aug. 23, 1853 - 1 quotes
- Journals, entry for Feb. 3, 1860 - 1 quotes
- Julius Caesar - 5 quotes
- Juvenal. Satire x. - 1 quotes
- Karoo Anti-Fracking Speech to Shell in Cape Town, 25 March 2011 - 1 quotes
- Keep Christmas With You (TV Special - 1992) - 1 quotes
- Keeping the Moon - 1 quotes
- Kenelm Chillingly. - 1 quotes
- "La Bégueule" (Contes, 1772) - 1 quotes
- Lady Lazarus - 1 quotes
- Lady Windemere's Fan - 2 quotes
- La joie (Joy) 1929 - 5 quotes
- 'Lamia' (1820) - 1 quotes
- L'Amite est l'amour sans ailes (1806) - 1 quotes
- Last Chance To See - 13 quotes
- Last of the Barons. Book v. Chap. i. - 1 quotes
- Last words (1830-09-18), quoted by his grandson, William Carew Hazlitt, in Memoirs of William Hazlitt (1867) - 1 quotes
- last words in his notebook, 17 April 1949 - 1 quotes
- L'Avare. Act i. Sc. 3. - 1 quotes
- Le Barbier de Séville (1775) - 1 quotes
- Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- L'École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6. - 1 quotes
- Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819) - 2 quotes
- Lectures on the English Poets (1818) - 3 quotes
- Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767) - 1 quotes
- Le Mondain. Line 21. - 1 quotes
- Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6. - 1 quotes
- Letter (24 June 1949) - 1 quotes
- letter, Apr. 5, 1754, to his Son, Philip Stanhope - 1 quotes
- letter, Aug. 20, 1959. quoted in Victoria Glendinning, Rebecca West: A Life, pt. 5, ch. 8 (1987). - 1 quotes
- Letter, December 16, 1816, to her nephew, J. Edward Austen. Jane Austen - 1 quotes
- 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' in Why We Can't Wait 1963. - 2 quotes
- Letter, January 17, 1809, to her sister, Cassandra. - 1 quotes
- Letter, January 24, 1809, to her sister, Cassandra. Jane Austen - 1 quotes
- Letter, January 29, 1813, to her sister, Cassandra. - 1 quotes
- Letter, January 8, 1801, to her sister, Cassandra. - 1 quotes
- Letter, March 13, 1817, to her niece, Fanny Knight. Jane Austen - 1 quotes
- Letter, March 27, 1848, to Harrison Blake - 1 quotes
- Letter, May 21, 1801, to her sister, Cassandra. - 1 quotes
- Letter, November 17, 1798, to her sister, Cassandra. Jane Austen - 2 quotes
- Letter, November 18, 1814, to her niece, Fanny Knight. Jane Austen - 1 quotes
- Letter, November 30, 1814, to her niece, Fanny Knight. Jane Austen - 2 quotes
- Letter, October 11, 1813, to her sister, Cassandra. Jane Austen - 1 quotes
- letter, Sept. 18, 1796. - 1 quotes
- Letters to a Young Poet - 1 quotes
- Letter to Alan Harrington (1949) - 1 quotes
- letter to Arthur Davison Ficke, 24 Oct 1930 - 1 quotes
- Letter to Cardinal de Bernis, April 23, 1761. - 1 quotes
- letter to Crillon, 20 September 1597 - 1 quotes
- Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) - 1 quotes
- letter to Fanny Brawne, 1820 - 1 quotes
- Letter to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald - 1 quotes
- Letter to his literary agent, found on his desk after his death in 1968 - 1 quotes
- Letter to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885). - 1 quotes
- Letter to Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1762-11-28) - 1 quotes
- letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763 - 1 quotes
- letter to Lord Chesterfield, 7 Feb 1755 - 1 quotes
- Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770. - 1 quotes
- Letter to Mrs. E. Castleton (22 May 1843) - 1 quotes
- 'Liberty of the Press' in Philosophical Dictionary (1764) - 1 quotes
- Life of Johnson by James Boswell (1791) - 1 quotes
- Life of Themistocles - 2 quotes
- Life, the Universe and Everything - 23 quotes
- Light in August (1932) - 3 quotes
- L'Ingénu, ch.10 (1767) - 1 quotes
- Little Dorrit (1857) - 1 quotes
- Little Man and Little Soul. - 1 quotes
- Live in my Heart and Pay No Rent - 2 quotes
- Lives of Girls and Women - 2 quotes
- Long, long ago. - 1 quotes
- Look Homeward, Angel - 1 quotes
- Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best (1926)
Note: the line is likely a paraphrase, as it was used in a description of the short story itself. - 1 quotes
- Lords and Ladies - 2 quotes
- Lotus Leaves (poem) - 1 quotes
- Macbeth - 8 quotes
- Man and Superman (1903) - 2 quotes
- Mansfield Park - 9 quotes
- Mark Twain, introducing Winston Churchill, New York City, December 12, 1900 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 128 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 19 - 2 quotes
- Maxim 22 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 25 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 26 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 269 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 39 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 49 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 71 - 1 quotes
- Maxim 76 - 1 quotes
- Maximes (1678) - 1 quotes
- Maxims (1665) - 1 quotes
- Measure for Measure - 2 quotes
- Medea. 1078. - 1 quotes
- Medea. 618. - 1 quotes
- Medea. 636. - 1 quotes
- Meleager. Frag. 523. - 1 quotes
- Memoirs, ch. 11 - 1 quotes
- Men and Women, "Bishop Blougram's Apology" (1855) - 1 quotes
- Men and Women, "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855) - 1 quotes
- Men and Womenm "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855) - 1 quotes
- Message to the American people on the signing of the war resolution, April 6 1917 - 1 quotes
- Meursault in The Stranger - 1 quotes
- Michael - 1 quotes
- Microcosmorgraphia Academia (1908) - 1 quotes
- Moments of Being (1939-1940) - 1 quotes
- Monsieur Ouine, 1943 - 2 quotes
- Moonlight and Maggots - 1 quotes
- Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 201 - 1 quotes
- Mostly Harmless - 19 quotes
- Motherhood, the Second Oldest Profession, introduction (1983). - 1 quotes
- Moths - 1 quotes
- Mr. Sammler's planet, (1976) - 1 quotes
- Mrs Dalloway - 1 quotes
- Much Ado About Nothing - 15 quotes
- My Lost Youth (1858) - 1 quotes
- My Sister's Keeper - 6 quotes
- "My So-Called 'Post-Feminist' Life in Arts and Letters", The Nation, April 29, 2013 - 1 quotes
- Neuromancer - 1 quotes
- Neverwhere - 4 quotes
- Night and Morning. Chap. vi. - 1 quotes
- Nightmare Abbey - 1 quotes
- Nine Stories - 3 quotes
- Nineteen Eighty-Four (aka 1984) - 3 quotes
- No Man Is An Island (1955) - 1 quotes
- Northanger Abbey - 2 quotes
- Nostromo (1904) - 1 quotes
- Not a Drum was Heard (unpublished radio play, 1959) - 1 quotes
- Notebook (1935) - 1 quotes
- Notebook 1935 - 1 quotes
- Notebooks 1935-1942 (1962), March 1940 entry - 1 quotes
- Nothing Gold Can Stay - 1 quotes
- "Now" (1889) - 1 quotes
- Now We Are Six - 1 quotes
- NY Times 13 Jul 1958 - 1 quotes
- O Captain! My Captain! - 2 quotes
- Odes. iv. 9, 25. - 1 quotes
- Oenone (1832) - 1 quotes
- of all the souls that stand create - 1 quotes
- Of Mice and Men - 1 quotes
- Of Parents and Children - 1 quotes
- "Of Revenge," Essays (1597-1625). - 1 quotes
- Of Time and the River - 1 quotes
- Oh breathe not his Name. - 1 quotes
- Oh may I join the Choir invisible. - 1 quotes
- Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990) - 4 quotes
- Old Familiar Faces - 1 quotes
- Olive's Ocean - 1 quotes
- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College - 1 quotes
- On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. - 1 quotes
- On a Tear - 1 quotes
- "On Beauty" The Round Table (1815-1817) - 1 quotes
- On becoming a writer, NY Times (May 21, 1986) - 1 quotes
- On Beyond Zebra! (1955) - 2 quotes
- on Catch-22 - 1 quotes
- On Conciliation with America (1775) - 1 quotes
- On declining invitation to White House dinner honoring Nobel laureates, as quoted in Life magazine (20 January 1962) - 1 quotes
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish - 1 quotes
- One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (1960) - 2 quotes
- One Hand Clapping (1961) - 1 quotes
- on his cross-country test drive of a Ferrari - 1 quotes
- on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan - 1 quotes
- "On Manner" The Round Table (1815-1817) - 1 quotes
- On Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" - 1 quotes
- "On The Conduct of Life" (1822) - 3 quotes
- On the Death of a very young Gentleman. - 1 quotes
- on the poetry of Robert Frost - 1 quotes
- On The Road - 1 quotes
- On the Road - 2 quotes
- "On The Spirit of Controversy," The Atlas (1830-01-30) - 1 quotes
- on Washington, D.C., 1849 - 1 quotes
- on Washington, D.C., Travels in the United States in 1846–1847 - 1 quotes
- on Washinton, D.C., 1862 - 1 quotes
- on whether people in public life should refer to themselves in the third-person - 1 quotes
- Oration, August 31, 1837 - 1 quotes
- Oscar Wilde - 1 quotes
- Othello - 1 quotes
- Othello, Act I, sc. 2. - 1 quotes
- Our Town - 1 quotes
- Outre-Mer - 1 quotes
- Outside Magazine, 13 April 2009 - 1 quotes
- Overhead My Spirit Flies - 1 quotes
- Pæstum. - 1 quotes
- Palamon and Arcite. Book ii. Line 758. - 1 quotes
- Paracelsus (1835) - 5 quotes
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 253. - 1 quotes
- Parallel Lives - 1 quotes
- Paris Review interview (1958) - 2 quotes
- Parnassus on Wheels (1955) - 1 quotes
- Performed by Lily Tomlin. - 1 quotes
- Personal Impressions of America (Leadville) (1883) - 1 quotes
- Personal Impressions of America (Leadville) (1883). - 1 quotes
- Persuasion - 5 quotes
- Peter Pan, Act III - 1 quotes
- Peter & Wendy (1911) - 1 quotes
- Philinte, in Le Misanthrope, act 1, sc. 1. - 1 quotes
- Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young (1894) - 1 quotes
- Phrixus. Frag. 927. - 1 quotes
- Phrixus. Frag. 970. - 1 quotes
- Phrynette Married (1911)
This one is often misattributed to Bertrand Russell (and others) - see http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/11/time-you-enjoy/ for details. - 1 quotes
- Pick-Up Lines - 4 quotes
- Pictures from an Institution - 2 quotes
- Pipistrello (1880) - 1 quotes
- Pnin (1957) - 1 quotes
- Political Essays (1819) - 3 quotes
- preface to Emily Dickinson's Poems, First Series (1890) - 1 quotes
- Prejudices, First Series (1919) - 1 quotes
- Pride and Prejudice - 6 quotes
- Proper Studies (1927) 'Note on Dogma' - 1 quotes
- Proverbes. Part i. Chap. xi. - 1 quotes
- Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar (1894). - 1 quotes
- Quoted by Granville Hicks in The Living Novel: A Symposium (1957) - 1 quotes
- Quoted in "Oscar Wilde, an idler's impression" By Edgar Saltus (1917) - 1 quotes
- Rambler #60 (October 13, 1750) - 1 quotes
- "Real Women" Ladies - 1 quotes
- Rectorial address, May 3, 1922, St. Andrew - 2 quotes
- Rectorial Address, St. Andrew's, May 3, 1922 - 1 quotes
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) - 1 quotes
- Regarding his father.
Achieving The Impossible - A Fearless Leader. A Fragile Earth. (2010) - 1 quotes
- Regarding Hollywood. - 1 quotes
- Reginald in Russia (1910) - 1 quotes
- Remembrance Rock ch. 2 - 1 quotes
- Ren - 1 quotes
- Requiem for a Nun (1951) - 3 quotes
- Résumé - 1 quotes
- Rhesus. 482. - 1 quotes
- Rhyming Poem - 1 quotes
- Richard III - 4 quotes
- Richard III, 5:3 - 1 quotes
- Richelieu. Act iii. Sc. i. - 3 quotes
- Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. ii. - 1 quotes
- Richelieu. Act i. Sc. vi. - 1 quotes
- Richelieu. Act v. Sc. iii. - 1 quotes
- Robert Graves - 1 quotes
- Rodogune (1644) - 1 quotes
- Romeo and Juliet - 6 quotes
- 'Rondel de l'Adieu - 1 quotes
- Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - 13 quotes
- 'Roundabout,' 'The Office Party,' 1962. - 1 quotes
- Said at age 68. As quoted in 'In Search of J.D. Salinger' by Ian Hamilton. - 1 quotes
- Samson Agonistes - 1 quotes
- Sanctuary - 1 quotes
- San Marcos, Calif., 14-Sept-1995 - 1 quotes
- Satires. ii. 2. (111.) - 1 quotes
- saying (unknown origin) - 1 quotes
- Say not the struggle naught availeth - 1 quotes
- SCO Forum 97 - 1 quotes
- Search for Absence - 2 quotes
- Search for Change - 1 quotes
- Search for Enemies - 1 quotes
- Search for Failure - 4 quotes
- Search for Falling in Love - 2 quotes
- Search for Humility - 3 quotes
- Search for Kindness - 1 quotes
- Search for Life - 2 quotes
- Search for Men - 3 quotes
- Search for Pleasure - 1 quotes
- Search for Progress - 4 quotes
- Search for Punishment - 1 quotes
- Search for Reputation - 1 quotes
- Search for Talent - 1 quotes
- Search for War - 2 quotes
- Search for Wisdom - 1 quotes
- Selected Letters of James Thurber - 2 quotes
- Self-Reliance - 1 quotes
- Sense and Sensibility - 3 quotes
- Sentences from America, no. 12 (1970) - 1 quotes
- Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme (1738) - 1 quotes
- She wore a Wreath. - 1 quotes
- sign outside California meditation center - 1 quotes
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem - 2 quotes
- Small Gods - 31 quotes
- Snow Crash - 1 quotes
- So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish - 14 quotes
- Something Happened - 1 quotes
- Something Wicked This Way Comes - 8 quotes
- somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond... - 1 quotes
- Song of Solomon (1977) - 3 quotes
- Sonnets - 3 quotes
- "Sordello" (1840) - 1 quotes
- Speech, 14 Feb 1923 - 1 quotes
- Speech, 1947 - 1 quotes
- Speech, August 11, 1841 - 1 quotes
- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves - 1 quotes
- Strength to Love (1963) - 1 quotes
- "Summum Bonum" (1889) - 1 quotes
- "Swann - 1 quotes
- Sweet Thursday (1954) - 1 quotes
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- "The Captive," vol. 10, pt. 2, ch. 3, Remembrance of Things Past (1923), trans. by Ronald Cortie and Colette Cortie (1988). - 1 quotes
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