English

Explore 7518 quotes originally in English

Sort

They're old people. They eat, they sleep, they complain, they watch Family Feud. Oh my god, I wanna be an old person.

Parks and Recreation

Watch Season 6 of Parks and Recreation at Amazon Watch Season 6 of Parks and Recreation at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

"Anniversaries." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Megan Amram, directed by Morgan Sackett, season 6, episode 14, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2014.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

We have a beautiful mother
Her green lap immense
Her brown embrace eternal
Her blue body everything
We know.

Alice Walker

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Walker, Alice. "We Have a Beautiful Mother." Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, I. 23.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Government is not the problem, and Government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our Founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon Buy a book containing this speech at Amazon

Read this speech at UVA's Miller Center website

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

Read Einstein on the Atomic Bomb at theatlantic.com

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want.

Before Sunset

Watch Before Sunset at Amazon Watch Before Sunset at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

William Blake

Songs of Experience

Buy a book containing this poem at Amazon Buy a book containing this poem at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Tyger." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Tyger." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.

Ratatouille

Watch Ratatouille at Amazon Watch Ratatouille at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Ratatouille. Directed by Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2007.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Civility costs nothing and buys every thing.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Letter to Lady Bute. 30 May 1756.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. "Letter to Lady Bute." The Complete Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Volume III: 1752-1762, edited by Robert Halsband. Oxford University Press, 1967.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Wife and Servant are the same,
But only differ in the name.

Mary Chudleigh

To the Ladies

Read To the Ladies at Poetry Foundation

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." Poems on Several Occasions. London: Bernard Lintott, 1703, I. 1.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Chudleigh, Mary. "To the Ladies." The Poems and Prose of Mary, Lady Chudleigh. Oxford University Press, 1993, I. 1.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

The trick to falling asleep is trying to stay awake.

Saving Private Ryan

Watch Saving Private Ryan at Amazon Watch Saving Private Ryan at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Saving Private Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures/Mutual Film Company, 1998.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, July 1844.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Poe, Edgar Allan. "The Premature Burial." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

God and the Bible

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The advancement & diffusion of Knowledge, which is the only Guardian of true liberty.

James Madison

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Madison, James. Letter to George Thomson. 30 June 1825.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "Political Observations, 20 Apr. 1795." Founders Online, National Archives. Founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

A man is so in the way in the house.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Cranford

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Gaskell, Elizabeth. "Cranford." Household Words, 1851-1853.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 1.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.

Robert Burns

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Era

Authentication Score 0

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever." Scots Musical Museum. 1791, I. 11.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Ae Fond Kiss." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 11.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Tonight most people will be welcomed home by jumping dogs and squealing kids. Their spouses will ask about their day, and tonight they'll sleep. The stars will wheel forth from their daytime hiding places; and one of those lights, slightly brighter than the rest, will be my wingtip passing over.

Up in the Air

Watch Up in the Air at Amazon Watch Up in the Air at Amazon

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Actor

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

Citation text copied to clipboard.