299 Quotes by Amor Towles

...education will give you a sense of the world's scope, of its wonders, of its many and varied ways of life.

Friends, Casper observed, are the envy of the angels.

Si vous voulez courtiser avec succès, il faut être attentif aux moindres paroles, aux moindres gestes et aux moindres regards de l'autre. L'affaire, en d'autres termes, est épuisante.

Jazz seemed like a naturally gregarious force--one that was a little unruly and prone to say the first thing that popped into its head, but generally of good humour and friendly intent. In addition, it seemed decidedly unconcerned with where it had been or where it was going--exhibiting somehow simultaneously the confidence of the master and the inexperience of the apprentice. Was there any wonder that such an art had failed to originate in Europe?

In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack, you could climb to the Milky Way.

Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.

With a shake of the head, the Court reflect that there was simply no substitute for experience.

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.