Top 100 Gilbert's Quotes
#1. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
L.M. Montgomery
#2. Gilbert's response to being told they (the words 'ruddy' and 'bloody') meant the same thing was: Not at all, for that would mean that if I said that I admired your ruddy countenance, which I do, I would be saying that I liked your bloody cheek, which I don't.
W.S. Gilbert
#3. Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem
#4. In all the woes that curse our race there is a lady in the case.
W.S. Gilbert
#5. When it comes to romance, I'm always behind you. I am slower. It's like you are the lightening and I am the thunder.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#6. What though I cannot meet my bills?
What though I suffer toothache's ills?
What though I swallow countless pills?
W.S. Gilbert
#7. Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#9. The often surprising results of that hunt - that's what I call Big Magic.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
Gilbert Murray
#11. There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.
W.S. Gilbert
#12. What is it about the American obsession with productivity and responsibility that makes it so difficult for us to allow ourselves a little time to solve the puzzle of our own lives, before it's too late?
Elizabeth Gilbert
#13. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#14. We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#15. I was the baby of the family, but I was never babied, and that allowed me to take whatever artistic temperament I had and apply learned discipline. I was taught how to work. I think that's everything. Creativity and imagination alone are not going to get you there.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#16. I like teaching, too," said Gilbert. "It's good training, for one thing. Why, Anne, I've learned more in the weeks I've been teaching the young ideas of White Sands than I learned in all the years I went to school myself.
L.M. Montgomery
#17. It's not the world that's got so much worse but the news coverage that's got so much better.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#18. No outbreak of jealousy or malice has ever been welcomed in God's eyes." Beatrix continued, "nor shall such an outbreak ever be welcomed in the eyes of your family. If you have sentiments within you that are unpleasant or uncharitable, let them fall stillborn to the ground.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#19. Power is a neutral energy source, like tofu. It's what you do with it that gives it flavor.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#21. The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!
W.S. Gilbert
#22. Maybe it's just me but I would suspect that a man trying to impress a woman would be more likely to bring out the steak - "I killed this for you, now I'm grilling it for you."
Elizabeth Gilbert
#23. There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#24. Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
W.S. Gilbert
#25. Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life's expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#26. Reality' is a movie generated by our brains. Because we don't realize this, we are far too confident that the stuff appearing in the movie is actually 'out there' in the world when, in fact, it's not.
Daniel Gilbert
#27. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is, you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess, unrecognizable even to your own eyes.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#29. As we begin to switch from operating out of fear and move toward operating out of love, we begin to change our have to's to get to's.
Jamie Gilbert
#30. Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.
Jack Gilbert
#31. There's no credit in not doing what you don't want to do. There's no virtue in not falling, when you're not tempted.
Gilbert Parker
#32. Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.
Gilbert Gottfried
#33. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W.S. Gilbert
#34. On my face extended flat
I was walloped with a cat
For listening at the key-hole of the door.
W.S. Gilbert
#35. Success isn't about acquiring things, it's about discovering your life purpose and following the call
Elizabeth Gilbert
#36. Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#37. Om Namah Shivaya.
I honor the divinity that resides within me.
... I repeat it again. Again. And again. It's not so much that I'm meditating as unpacking the mantra carefully, the way you would unpack your grandmother's best china if it had been stored in a box for a long time, unused.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#38. There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#39. As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. It's a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#41. In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!
W.S. Gilbert
#42. Question the bravery.
Say it's not courage. Call it a passion.
Jack Gilbert
#43. What kind of dog is that?" I would always give the same answer: "She's a brown dog." Similarly, when the question is raised, "What kind of God do you believe in?" my answer is easy: "I believe in a magnificent God.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#44. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#45. Note to goyim readers: not every Jew who grew up in Brooklyn was rich. And as long as I'm on it, here's another note: fuck you. That's all. Whether or not you assumed we were rich, if you're a goyim, fuck you. But keep reading, and tell your friends to buy the book.
Gilbert Gottfried
#46. What I think is amazing is not that 85% of people who get married under the age of 25 get divorced, it's that 15% of them stay together. How did they manage to pull that off? You almost can't wait too long. It's the single simplest measure to predict divorce.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#47. I am determined to make the most of this life that I have, damn it - it's that kind of stubbornness I think we all need more of.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#48. As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#49. It was the Senator's opinion that a good, peppery chicken soup could cure anything, even childbirth, so he cooked up a nice batch for Stanley Thomas's wife.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#51. What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized, just because you think it's sacred. What is sacred is the time that you spend working on the project, and what that time does to expand your imagination, and what that expanded imagination does to transform your life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#52. Though I'm anything but clever, I could talk like that forever.
W.S. Gilbert
#53. So I fell in love with a rich attorney's
Elderly ugly daughter.
W.S. Gilbert
#54. There's a place in your mind where any voices you let in slip down your spine and into your lungs and heart, become a thing you breathe and bleed.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#55. Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#56. I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny ... I forgive him everything.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#57. Collegeboard's database of 2,300+ funding sources totaling more than $3 billion in aid.
Laura H. Gilbert
#58. My writing practice taught me the important thing is steadfastness. It's not necessarily discipline. Discipline can become a prison. When your spiritual practices become another thing for you to be anxious about, they've lost their usefulness.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#59. Wait, I thought I was your dream guy,' Peter says. Not to me, to Kitty. He knows he's not my dream guy. My dream guy is Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables. Handsome, loyal, smart in school.
Jenny Han
#60. Utopia's quite another land;
In her enterprising movements,
She is England
with improvements
W.S. Gilbert
#61. Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her.
Jack Gilbert
#62. Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
W.S. Gilbert
#63. Because either way, it's all kind of amazing - what we get to do, what we get to attempt, what we sometimes get to commune with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#64. It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore
L.J.Smith
#65. A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#66. Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.
Jack Gilbert
#67. I think it's just a conglomerate of everybody's influences that comes out on the record, and live as well.
Brantley Gilbert
#68. As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'
Tom Vanderbilt
#69. I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!
Sara Gilbert
#70. Men spoke much in my boyhood about restricted or ruined men of genius: and it was common to say that many a man was a Great Might-Have-Been. To me it's a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might-Not-Have-Been.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#71. I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age,
Photographically lined
On the tablet of my mind
W.S. Gilbert
#72. Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#73. You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#74. It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#75. You [the teacher] do not merely insert a lot of facts, if you teach them [the students] properly. It is not like injecting 500 cc. of serum, or administering a year's dose of vitamins.
Gilbert Highet
#76. Oh, Gilbert, don't let's ever grow too old and wise... no, not too old and silly for fairyland.
L.M. Montgomery
#77. All human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who have lived together over long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#78. I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.
Gilbert S. Merritt Jr.
#80. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi-the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast,or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent of happiness can do this, not only the rich.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#81. I will leave with the hope that the expansion of one person - the magnification of one life - is indeed an act of worth in this world. Even if that life, just this one time, happens to be nobody's but my own.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#82. Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#83. Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's a system that's supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That's how the system guides you through the world.
Daniel Gilbert
#84. A woman gave my dad $400 so we could get an apartment. We were living in a park. That's how we got started: Four hundred bucks, and look at me. When I donate a computer to a school, I never know what's going to come out of it.
Gilbert Arenas
#85. Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.
W.S. Gilbert
#86. (Ah, lovely adolescence - when the "talented" are officially shunted off from the herd, thus putting the total burden of society's creative dreams on the thin shoulders of a few select souls, while condemning everyone else to live a more commonplace, inspiration-free existence! What a system . . . )
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. But it turns out that even if I don't talk a lot, when it's something that matters I still have a lot to say.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#89. You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#90. You are here and you are allowed to be here and therefore you are allowed to make decisions about yourself and the people in your life; rather than sort of backing up and making sure it's okay with everybody at every turn.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#91. I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.
Gilbert Gottfried
#92. Because when it all comes together, it's amazing. When it all comes together, the only thing you can do is bow down in gratitude, as if you have been granted an audience with the divine. Because you have.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#93. A good Moslem king was one who was strict in religion, valiant in battle, just in giving judgment among his people, but not one who had the slightest objection in international matters to removing his neighbour's landmark.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#94. Who the hell do you think you are?" your darkest interior voices will demand. "It's funny you should ask," you can reply. "I'll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor
Elizabeth Gilbert
#95. You can't think about how much you have left to do because that's just one thought, one sad thought, that'll make you bummed out all day long. Instead you've got to think about how much you've already done.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#96. Groceries, baby, listen to your friend Richard. You go set your lily-white ass down in that meditation cave every day for the next three months and I promise you this
you're gonna start seeing some stuff that's so damn beautiful it'll make you wanna throw rocks at the Taj Mahal.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#97. The trouble with Christianity is, not that its failed, but that it's never been tried ... not that it can't remake the world, but that it's difficult.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#98. It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation
Rob Gilbert
#99. I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.
Gilbert Gottfried
#100. I am going to spend as much time as I can creating delightful things out of my existence, because that's what brings me awake and that's what brings me alive. I
Elizabeth Gilbert
