Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 2,
Authors 'C' and 'D'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| C | |
| "You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." | Albert Camus |
| "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." | Miguel de Cervantes |
| "Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty." | Coco Chanel |
| "There are people who have money and people who are rich." | Coco Chanel |
| "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable." | Coco Chanel |
| "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." | G.K. Chesterton |
| "A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." | G.K. Chesterton |
| "I married an archaeologist because the older I grow the more he appreciates me." | Agatha Christie |
| "Very few of us are what we seem." | Agatha Christie |
| "Money can't buy happiness, but it sure makes misery easier to live with." | Winston Churchill |
| "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research." | Winston Churchill |
| "War does not determine who is right - only who is left. " | Winston Churchill |
| "A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. " | Winston Churchill |
| "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." | Winston Churchill |
| "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." | Winston Churchill |
| "All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words : freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." | Winston Churchill |
| "By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." | Winston Churchill |
| "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." | Winston Churchill |
| "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." | Winston Churchill |
| "If you are going through hell, keep going." | Winston Churchill |
| "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." | Winston Churchill |
| "The price of greatness is responsibility." | Winston Churchill |
| "Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." | Winston Churchill |
| "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." | Winston Churchill |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." | Cicero |
| "Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors." | E.M. Cioran |
| "Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious" | Jean Cocteau |
| "I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" | Jean Cocteau |
| "Style is a simple way of saying complicated things." | Jean Cocteau |
| "The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes." | Paulo Coelho |
| "You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it." | Paulo Coelho |
| "What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats." | Paulo Coelho |
| "It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." | Confucius |
| "Men's natures are alike. It's their habits that carry them far apart." | Confucius |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." | Confucius |
| "Respect yourself and others will respect you." | Confucius |
| "The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." | Confucius |
| "Silence is a true friend who never betrays." | Confucius |
| "I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." | Marie Curie |
| "Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." | Marie Curie |
| "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." | Marie Curie |
| D | |
| "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." | Salvador Dali |
| "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." | Salvador Dali |
| "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." | Charles Darwin |
| "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." | Marlene Dietrich |
| "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Little things affect little minds." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Success is the child of audacity." | Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together; at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit." | Alexandre Dumas |
| "All for one and one for all." | Alexandre Dumas |
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