About

This is a collection of exquisite quotations: all of them were hand-picked, and most of them have been edited in one way or another — mostly to correct punctuation issues.

Right now, the site shows quotations from 349 Authors. That's 1943 Quotations in all — of which 1284 are marked as “Funny”.

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Contact

I'm Gabriel Coarna. You can get in touch at

I'm using JavaScript to hide my email address from spam harvesters. If you're seeing this message, though, it probably means that you have JavaScript turned off, or are using a browser with no JavaScript support. JavaScript is good for the web; so you should get this fixed. In the meantime, though, here's my address: "gabriel", followed by the at symbol, followed by "tastefulwords.com".

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1. 1.You've found an error somewhere — spelling, grammar, misattribution, or even a bug.
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The Backstory

I love quotations. I always have. So, at one point, I started collecting them — in a text file, on my computer.

Flash forward a year or so: the text file had gotten really big — over a thousand quotations. That's when I first thought of building the website — mainly because (1) I wanted a faster way to search and find quotations I only partially remembered, and (2) I wanted a simple way to easilly share this stuff with friends.

Flash forward another year or so: I finally found the time to do that.

An Experiment

One of the main reasons this website was built was so that I could explore some interesting topics: to-the-point design, web-typography, caching, speed, and storing-stuff-in-something-other-than-a-database.