💬 Quotes
4,062 quotes from great books
"Il faut beaucoup de courage pour affronter ses ennemis, mais il en faut tout autant pour affronter ses amis."
— Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling
"La vérité. C'est une chose terrible et magnifique, et elle doit donc être traitée avec une grande précaution."
— Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling
"Ne plains pas les morts, Harry. Plains les vivants et surtout ceux qui vivent sans amour."
— Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling
"On peut trouver le bonheur même dans les moments les plus sombres, si l'on se souvient d'allumer la lumière."
— Harry Potter à l'école des sorciersby J. K. Rowling
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind."
— Catch-22by Joseph Heller
"It was almost too good to be true, and that was the trouble with it. It was too good to be true, and therefore it could not be true."
— Catch-22by Joseph Heller
"They're trying to kill me, he told him. No one is trying to kill you, Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me, Yossarian asked."
— Catch-22by Joseph Heller
"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
— Catch-22by Joseph Heller
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"Data! Data! Data! I can't make bricks without clay."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule."
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmesby Arthur Conan Doyle
"It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
— A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
— A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man."
— A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess
"It is as easy to stop a man from being bad as it is to stop him from being good. They are both the same things, really."
— A Clockwork Orange:Hrsg. V. Claus Melchior. (Fremdsprachentexte)by Anthony Burgess