Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 8,
Authors from 'U' to 'Z'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| U | |
| "The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure." | Unknown |
| "The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." | Unknown |
| "Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it." | Unknown |
| "Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." | Unknown |
| "Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." | Unknown |
| "The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." | Unknown |
| "Only those who keep trying eventually win." | Unknown |
| "Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement." | Unknown |
| "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." | Unknown |
| "The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow." | Unknown |
| V | |
| "Conscience is a man's compass." | Vincent Van Gogh |
| "What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" | Vincent Van Gogh |
| "The progress of rivers to the ocean is not as rapid as that of man to error." | Voltaire |
| "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." | Voltaire |
| "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." | Voltaire |
| "The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks." | Voltaire |
| "Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one." | Voltaire |
| "The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." | Voltaire |
| "Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." | Voltaire |
| W | |
| "Ambition is the last refuge of failure." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it!" | Oscar Wilde |
| "Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterwards." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." | Oscar Wilde |
| "I can resist everything except temptation." | Oscar Wilde |
| "I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability." | Oscar Wilde |
| "My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." | Oscar Wilde |
| "No man is rich enough to buy back his past." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." | Oscar Wilde |
| "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." | Oscar Wilde |
| "The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." | Oscar Wilde |
| "There are only two tragedies in life : one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it." | Oscar Wilde |
| "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." | Oscar Wilde |
| "True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde |
| "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." | Oscar Wilde |
| "When the gods want to punish us they answer our prayers." | Oscar Wilde |
| "Wisdom is knowing how little we know." | Oscar Wilde |
| "All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." | Tennessee Williams |
| "Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life." | Tennessee Williams |
| "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go." | Tennessee Williams |
| Y | |
| "Education is not the filling of a pail but rather the lighting of a fire." | William Butler Yeats |
| "There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met." | William Butler Yeats |
| Z | |
| "I'd rather die of passion than of boredom!" | Emile Zola |
| "Nothing develops intelligence like travel." | Emile Zola |
| "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." | Emile Zola |
| "The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better." | Emile Zola |
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