Gorky Lower Depths Quotes

#1. There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.

Stephen Fry

#2. If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#3. Being authentic is more respectable than being great.

K.P. Stafford

#4. I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.

Ruth Davidson

#5. And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

William Faulkner

#6. For a moment, I saw that set of paints Elain had once bought me with the extra money she'd saved. The red, yellow, and blue I'd savored, used to paint that dresser in our cottage. I had not painted in years at that point, had not dared spend the money on myself...But Elain had.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.

Peter Ackroyd

#8. There is in the soul a desire for not thinking.
For being still. Coupled with this
a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous.
But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch,
not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.

Raymond Carver

#9. My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high school, so I loved the idea that I could mimic this lifestyle.

Reggie Watts

#10. If you stop feeding strife, it will eventually lead to a peaceful life.

Jeanette Coron

#11. The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.

Paul Auster

#12. Trust is for the weak [...] and love is for victims.

Heather Burch

#13. Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

Audrey Niffenegger

#14. If I were as rich as Mr. Darcy," cried a young Lucas, who came with his sisters, "I should not care how proud I was. I would keep a pack of foxhounds, and drink a bottle of wine a day.

Jane Austen

#15. Exceptions are dangerous, Mr. Clay. Give them a foothold and they turn into habits.

Lawana Blackwell