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181 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Statement type·Question✕clear

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the end of Being and ideal Grace.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1850

★ 9.3

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 8.6

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

For what should a man live, if not for the pleasures of discourse?

Phaedrus · 370 BC

★ 8.2

Speech · Political speech

Pro Milone · 52 BC

★ 8.0

Lucius Cassius Longinus Ravilla

Cicero, Pro Milone · 80 BC

★ 7.7

Song · Folk music · Folk rock

How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home A complete unknown Like a rolling stone?

Like a Rolling Stone · 1965

★ 7.5

Novel · Satire

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?

Candide · 1759

★ 7.4

Philosophical literature

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.3

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

1881

★ 7.3

Film · Historical drama (film) · Drama (film) · Historical drama · Drama

Are you not entertained?

Maximus Decimus Meridius

Gladiator · 2000

★ 7.2

Scripture · Religious literature

If God be for us, who can be against us?

Romans 8:31 · 56

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

The Enchiridion · 135

★ 7.1

Song · Folk music

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man?... The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Blowin' in the Wind · 1963

★ 7.1

Life, what is it but a dream?

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?”

John 18:38 · 90

★ 7.1

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

1925

★ 7.1

Scripture · Religious literature

Why seek ye the living among the dead?

Luke 24:5 · 61

★ 7.1

Treatise · Religious literature

What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

220

★ 7.1

Film · Neo-noir · Crime (film) · Crime

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well I'm the only one here. Who the fuck do you think you're talking to? Oh yeah, yeah. Okay.

Taxi Driver · 1976

★ 7.1

Film · Action (film) · Crime (film) · Action · Crime

Can you dig it?

The Warriors · 1979

★ 7.0

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