Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 8,
Authors from 'U' to 'Z'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
Quotation | Author |
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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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