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Doris Lessing Quotes

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013

Topics

Funny Think Quiet Sometimes Way

I remember that, at an early age, I spent many months making a three-masted sailing boat with rigging in a half-walnut shell.

Age Boat Remember Early Sailing

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

Health Time Care America Now

I wish you could make money and people never saw what you did. Then you could relax and not care about how bad you are.

Money People Relax Care Wish You

These gardens may be called the gardens of the respectable working classes.

May Working Gardens Classes

I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.

Rose Schneiderman

Business Doing Down Others Hard Two

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Father Son History Great Time Past

In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.

Great Loneliness Think Lonely Wander

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

Death Tax Unfair Immoral Inefficient

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

Diane von Furstenberg

Better Play Everything Scrabble iPad

I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.

Father Decision Know Boy Will Kids

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

William Shakespeare

Live Men Honor Loss Die Enough

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sky Harmony Summer Through Autumn

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