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Dies Quotes - Page 24

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

"Deutsches Requiem" (1946) (translation by Julian Palley)

No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.

"Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. August 21, 2009.

Let my country die for me.

James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.387, Book House

One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Henry Cloud (2007). “9 Things You Simply Must Do to Succeed in Love and Life: A Psychologist Learns from His Patients What Really Works and What Doesn't”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Clive Giboire (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: the complete correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

It's better for one to die than for all of us to be killed in a shooting affray. Anyway, we've practically no ammunition.

"The Forced Suicide of Field Marshall Rommel, 1944", www.eyewitnesstohistory.com. 2002.

Once you realise that heroes die, everything becomes that much more terrifying.

Interview with Ed Cumming, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 10, 2012.

Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1977). “Treatises III.”, Burns & Oates