๐Ÿ’ฌ Quotes

8,712 quotes from great books

"Dobby is free."
โ€” Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling
"Spiders. Why's it always spiders? Why couldn't it be 'follow the butterflies'?"
โ€” Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling
"Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world."
โ€” Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling
"You will find that help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it."
โ€” Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling
"It is open to us to furnish ourselves with a whole series of generations of esquires and gentlemen who shall go to sleep in the quiet age, and rise again in the fabulous future."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"I can see the moon spinning swiftly through the sky, its phases following one another with bewildering rapidity."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"Under the new conditions of perfect security, life and intellect had undergone a necessary degeneration."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"Man had not been improving, he had been degenerating."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"At first, dwelling upon the monstrous realities of my sight, I have pictured the civilization of that remote age as hurled back into a capricious and cruel state of nature."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"If it is so, if that is the meaning of these cyclic death-watches, then it points to a dismal future for our race that takes away the brightness of the spectacle of living."
โ€” The Time Machineby H. G. Wells
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"Art is quite useless."
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed."
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?"
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"Each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word."
โ€” The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde
"Innovation is not simply about invention; it is about the successful exploitation of new ideas."
โ€” Innovation and Entrepreneurshipby J. R. Bessant
"Entrepreneurship is fundamentally about mindsetโ€”a way of thinking and acting that focuses on opportunity rather than resource constraints."
โ€” Innovation and Entrepreneurshipby J. R. Bessant
"Successful organizations must master the ambidextrous challenge: exploiting existing capabilities while simultaneously exploring new opportunities."
โ€” Innovation and Entrepreneurshipby J. R. Bessant
"Markets are rarely static; the most successful innovators are those who learn fastest through continuous experimentation and user feedback."
โ€” Innovation and Entrepreneurshipby J. R. Bessant