"Wit is well-bred insolence." - Aristotle Always have something unexpected in your pocket. Aristotle may have had this insight over two thousand y...
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"I would always rather be happy than dignified." - Charlotte Brontë A cyclist makes her own path. From her novel Jane Eyre. • 11x14 inch art pr...
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"No use kicking, boys." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman It’s three minutes to midnight and she’s kicking off the shackles of history. Now it’s time for...
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"I hate the office; it cuts in on my social life." - Dorothy Parker From one of her Hate Song poems, first published in Vanity Fair in 1919. Arm...
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"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies t...
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"Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work." - Gustave Flaubert What. Did you think you could muck...
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"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century a...
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"The majority is never right." - Henrik Ibsen One bird leaves the flock, creating a simple equation: the individual is greater than the group. Ins...
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"I would rather have nothing but tea. " - Jane Austen Pray, coffee drinkers, do not trifle with a connoisseur of the finer beverage, lest you fin...
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"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power of o...
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"All that on a very small planet that would have to last forever." - Kurt Vonnegut What a bunch of buffoons we must look like to the Tralfamadoria...
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"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. • 11x14 inch art print ...
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"The world is filled with the most outrageous nonsense." - Nikolai Gogol From his preposterous farce The Nose, in which a nose goes awol and imper...
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"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde Wilde is reported to have dropped this zinger upon arrival in the New York Customs Hou...
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"I wonder what the machines will think." - Philip K. Dick Sometimes, surprisingly reasonable advice can be gleaned from a paranoid dystopian metac...
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"Exit, pursued by a bear." - William Shakespeare "Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" that is inf...
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"I shall make it felony to drink small beer." - William Shakespeare If you want to enjoy yourself, you’ve got to go big or go home! Seriously, it...
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"I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it." - William Shakespeare What is it about an undersized box that cats find so irresistib...
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"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." - William Shakespeare This line kicks off the second scene of The Tempest. Stunned by the fury of Pr...
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"What, you egg! [Stabs him.]" - William Shakespeare Wait, I can explain. It began when we asked our super-smart-Shakespeare-scholar friend what he...
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"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - William Shakespeare In Shakespeare’s plays, the rich and powerful are sometimes clueless, and the penn...
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"Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat!" - William Shakespeare So I had my horns done. What do you think? Outrageously expensive, but worth it i...
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"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." - William Shakespeare Hamlet tosses this little mic-dro...
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"For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog." - William Shakespeare From Timon of Athens, the complete quotation is "For thy part, I do wish thou wer...
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