Quotations Select an author from the list below to see their quotations. Select an author here: Choose an author A.A. Milne Abbie Hoffman Abraham Lincoln Adlai Stevenson Alan Ayckbourn Alan Bennett Albert Camus Albert Schweitzer Aldous Huxley Alexander Graham Bell Alfonso X “El Sabio” Alfred E. Newman Alfred Emanuel “Al” Smith Alfred–Lord Tennyson Alice Roosevelt Longworth Alice Walker André Maurois Andrew Holleran [Eric Garber] Andrew Mellon Andrew Tobias [John Reid] Anita Loos Anne Lamott Anne Wilson Schaef Anonymous Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Aristotélēs [Ἀριστοτέλης] [Aristotle] Armistead Maupin Barbara Kingsolver Barbara Tuchman Bernard M. Baruch Bert Kalmar (1884–1947)–Harry Ruby (1895–1974)–Arthur Sheekman (1901–1978) and Nat Perrin (1905–1998) Bertrand Russell Beryl Bainbridge Billy Wilder Blas de Otero Boris Pasternak [Бори́с Пастерна́к] Brendan Behan C.P. Scott Carl Jung Catullus [Gaius Valerius Catullus] Charles Brackett (1892–1969) / Billy Wilder (1906-2002) / Walter Reisch (1903-1983) Chief Joseph [Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt / hinmatóowyalahtq̓it] Christopher Bram Christopher Isherwood Clare Boothe Luce Clarence Darrow Clementine Paddleford Clifton Fadiman Clive James Coco Chanel Colette Compton Mackenzie D. H. Lawrence Damon Runyon Daniel Hillel Daniel O’Connell David Letterman David Plante David W. McFadden Dom Pierre Pérignon Don Marquis Dorothy Parker Douglas Adams E. Y. “Yip” Harburg E.M. Forster Edith Wharton Edward Gibbon Eleanor Roosevelt Elizabeth Taylor Emma Lazarus Ennius [Quintus Ennius] Ernest Dowson Ernest Hemingway Ernest Lehman Ernst Lubitsch Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough Ethel Barrymore F. Scott Fitzgerald Federico García Lorca Flavius Claudius Julianus Augustus Fran Lebowitz Francisco “Pancho” Villa François de La Rochefoucauld Frank Lloyd Wright Fred Allen Friedrich Nietzche Fyodor Dostoevsky [Фёдор Достое́вский] Gaius Sallustius Crispus [Sallust] Gautama Buddha [गौतम बुद्ध] George Bernard Shaw George II George Jean Nathan George Sand [Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin] George Santayana Gilda Radner Giordano Bruno Glenda Jackson Gloria Steinem Grace Metalious Graham Green Gustave Flaubert Guy de Maupassant Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick] H.G. Wells H.L. Mencken Harriette Wilson Harvey Milk Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) Heinrich Heine Helen Hayes Helen Keller Henny Youngman Henri J.M. Nouwen Henry David Thoreau Henry Morgan Herman Wouk Hillel [הלל] Holly Near Honoré de Balzac Humphrey Bogart Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen] J.M. Barrie James Baldwin James Kirkwood Jr. James Oppenheim James T. Bretzke, SJ, STD James Thurber Jane Austin Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Jimmy Hoffa Jimmy Walker Joe Orton Johann Wolfgang von Goethe John Foster Dulles John Mason Brown John O’Donohue John Updike John W. Raper Johnny Carson Jorge Amado Jorge Luis Borges José Ortega Y Gassett Joseph L. Mankiewicz Julie Gold Kate Mostel Katherine Hepburn Kingsley Amis Konrad Adenauer L.M. Boyd Lady Violet Bonham Carter Lauren Bacall Lawrence Peter “Yogi” Berra Leo Tolstoy [Лев Толстой] Leonard Matlovich Lewis Carroll Lewis Thomas Lillian Hellman Lillian Ross Lope de Vega Louis Kronenberger Louis XVIII Louise Bogan Luther Burbank Machado de Assis Madame Roland [Marie-Jeanne Phlippon Roland] Mae West Mahatma Gandhi [મહાત્મા ગાંધી] {Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી]} Marcel Marceau Marcus Tullius Cicero Marie, Queen of Romania Marilyn Monroe Mario Puzo Mark Helprin Mark Twain Martin Buber Martin Cruz Smith Matthew Arnold Maurice Richlin (1920-1990) / Stanley Shapiro (1925-1990) Menandros (Menander) [Μένανδρος] Michel de Montaigne Mignon McLaughlin Miguel de Cervantes Miguel de Unamuno Miss Piggy Montserrat Roig Ned Rorem Nigella Lawson Nikita Khrushchev [Никита Хрущёв] Nikos Kazantzakis [Νίκος Καζαντζάκης] Noel Coward O. Henry Ogden Nash Omar N. Bradley Oscar Levant Oscar Wilde Pablo Picasso Pau Casals Paul Fix Paul Monette Paul Valéry Peter De Vries Philippa Pearce Pindaros [Πίνδαρος] [Pindar] Proverbs, anonymous writings, etc. Publilius Syrus Publius Ovidius Naso [Ovid] Publius Terentius Afer [Terence] Quentin Crisp Rabbi Mattithyah ben Heresh [רבי מתיא בן חרש] Rabindranath Tagore [রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর] Ray Bradbury Raymond Chandler Richard Bach Robert Benchley Robert F. Kennedy Robert Frost Robert Fulghum Robert Graves Romain Gary Rudyard Kipling Russell Lynes S.J. Perelman Sam Levenson Samuel Butler Samuel Goldwyn Samuel Johnson Sengzhao [僧肇] Soong May-ling [宋美齡] [Madame Chiang Kai-Shek] Sophie Tucker Stephen Fry Stevie Smith Sybil Marshall T.S. Eliot Tacitus [Publius Cornelius Tacitus] Tallulah Bankhead Ted Morgan Tennessee Williams Terenci Moix Teressa Skelton Thomas à Kempis, CRV [Thomas von Kempen / Thomas van Kempen] Thomas De Quincey Thomas Jefferson Tom Lehrer Truman Capote UNESCO Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Virginia Woolf W. Somerset Maugham W.C. Fields W.H. Auden Walt Whitman Walter Kerr Washington Irving Will Cuppy William “Canada Bill” Jones William Allen White William Blake William Butler Yeats William F. Buckley Jr. William Faulkner William Hamilton William J. Mayo William Jennings Bryan William Safire William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Woody Allen