Rudyard Kipling (Kim)
"I have seen something of this world", she said over the crowded trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it - those who take the strength out of a man and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this".

William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying)
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

George Orwell (Animal farm)
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice):
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Zsa Zsa Gabor:
Asked how many husbands she has had, said, "You mean apart from my own?"
"I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back."
"You never really know a man until you have divorced him."

How to define a living thing:
Fritjof Kapra. ‘Anything which contains DNA and is not dead’

Winston Churchill
"He has all of the virtues I dislike, and none of the vices I admire"

Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles:
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out"