Fatal Quotes

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. (Oscar Wilde)
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. View quote
Al Franken
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. View quote
Winston Churchill
The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal. View quote
David Brin
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. View quote
William Cowper
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. View quote
Bertrand Russell
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. View quote
George Boole
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. (Neil Gaiman)
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. View quote
Larry Niven
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery. View quote
Bianca Jagger
Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer. View quote
Humphry Davy
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. View quote
Edmund Burke
The fatal futility of Fact. View quote
Henry James
In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being. View quote
François Fénelon
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. (Plutarch)
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. View quote
Ernest Dimnet
A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is. View quote
Pauline Kael
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be. View quote
John Wooden