3,428 Quotes by Stephen King

Good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

To do otherwise with a 'prentice was to ask for a second, less playful bite. And who would be to blame for that? Who but the teacher? For was he not training her to bite? Training both of them to bite?

…. Beverly caught sight of something which she never spoke of but never forgot. For just a moment she saw their reflections in the glass- only there were six, not four, because Eddie was behind Richie and Stan was behind Bill, that little half-smile on his face.

the past is history, the future's a mystery

Critics and scholars have always been suspicious of popular success; often their suspicions are justified. In other cases, these suspicions are used as an excuse not to think. No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person. Give smart people half a chance and they'll ship their oars in drift.

Nasty thing that happened up there. It's stayed in the town's consciousness, too. Of course, tales of nastiness and murder are always handed down with slavering delight from generation to generation, while students groan and complain when they're faced with a George Washington Carver or a Jonas Salk. But it's more than that, I think. Perhaps it's due to a geographical freak.

No pongas tu confianza en los príncipes de este mundo, puesto que sólo pensarán en su propio interés, al igual que sus gobiernos, hasta el fin de los tiempos.