“politeness is deception in pretty packaging.”

― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

“Few places in this world are more dangerous than home.”

― John Muir, The Mountains of California

“I’ve said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“The final mystery is oneself.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”

― Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Then, my good friend, I said, do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to find out the natural bent.”

― Plato, The Republic

“she preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical . . . the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It’s the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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