Quotes on Ifs

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel."

We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!

As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.