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Alan Bleasdale To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the b... Anton Chekhov Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the tr... Anton Chekhov Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that ... Brendan Behan The big difference between sex for money and sex for free ... Clare Boothe Luce They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congre... Clare Boothe Luce The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blu... Dion Boucicault Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.... Edward Albee I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of hum... Eugene Ionesco Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us togeth... Eugene O'Neill Happiness hates the timid! So does science!... Friedrich Schiller Every true genius is bound to be naive.... George Bernard Shaw I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.... George Bernard Shaw The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financi... George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more t... George Bernard Shaw Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window ... George Bernard Shaw England and America are two countries separated by the sam... George Bernard Shaw Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instinct... George Bernard Shaw Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread i... George Bernard Shaw All great truths begin as blasphemies.... George Bernard Shaw Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there i... George Bernard Shaw Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.... George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no m... George Bernard Shaw Crude classifications and false generalizations are the cu... George Bernard Shaw No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the... George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, b... George Bernard Shaw Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered b... George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd... George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.... George Bernard Shaw There is no sincerer love than the love of food.... George Bernard Shaw Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on ch... George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human ... George Bernard Shaw Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world... George Bernard Shaw Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That... George Bernard Shaw Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.... George Bernard Shaw If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never r... George Bernard Shaw The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enoug... George Bernard Shaw We have no more right to consume happiness without produci... George Bernard Shaw Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, tru... George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynic... George Bernard Shaw Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary ma... George Bernard Shaw What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, ... George Bernard Shaw Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one... George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sl... George Bernard Shaw If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object... George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superio... George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriot... George Bernard Shaw No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He... George Bernard Shaw Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he know... George Bernard Shaw Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.... George Bernard Shaw Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the ma... George Bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conver... George Bernard Shaw Except during the nine months before he draws his first br... George Bernard Shaw Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.... George Bernard Shaw A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment ... George Bernard Shaw Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation... George Bernard Shaw An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.... George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a form of government that substitutes electio... George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto yo... George Bernard Shaw He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.... George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history th... George Bernard Shaw I never resist temptation, because I have found that thing... George Bernard Shaw It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly ... George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating ... George Bernard Shaw Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love tha... George Bernard Shaw The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.... George Bernard Shaw The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from... George Bernard Shaw Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never... George Bernard Shaw A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.... George Bernard Shaw Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what... George Bernard Shaw Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire ... George Bernard Shaw General consultant to mankind.... George Bernard Shaw Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and... George Bernard Shaw I absolutely forbid any such outrage.... George Bernard Shaw All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every... George Bernard Shaw Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power... George Bernard Shaw If parents would only realize how they bore their children... George Bernard Shaw A happy family is but an earlier heaven.... George Bernard Shaw An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfort... George Bernard Shaw Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.... George Bernard Shaw Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other me... George Bernard Shaw The love of economy is the root of all virtue.... George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is all... George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the o... George Bernard Shaw When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he... George Bernard Shaw A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alder... George Bernard Shaw Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.... George Bernard Shaw The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and n... George Bernard Shaw We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old bec... George Bernard Shaw Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all de... George Bernard Shaw I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder... George Bernard Shaw Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in n... George Bernard Shaw The first condition of progress is the removal of censorsh... George Bernard Shaw The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate t... George Bernard Shaw In this world there is always danger for those who are afr... George Bernard Shaw The only service a friend can really render is to keep up ... George Bernard Shaw We must always think about things, and we must think about... George Bernard Shaw Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be seri... George Bernard Shaw The things most people want to know about are usually none... George Bernard Shaw Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, sur... George Bernard Shaw Lack of money is the root of all evil.... George Bernard Shaw There is only one religion, though there are a hundred ver... George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into... George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year; I ha... George Bernard Shaw Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people withou... George Bernard Shaw Every man over forty is a scoundrel.... George Bernard Shaw Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being soo... George Bernard Shaw He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That poin... George Bernard Shaw I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illne... George Bernard Shaw I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Insid... George Bernard Shaw In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.... George Bernard Shaw It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved b... George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend... George Bernard Shaw Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ab... George Bernard Shaw She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunatel... George Bernard Shaw Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your he... George Bernard Shaw The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother... George Bernard Shaw Youth is wasted on the young.... George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave i... George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks... George Bernard Shaw The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see a... George Bernard Shaw You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life a... George Bernard Shaw Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of f... George Bernard Shaw The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth... George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curio... George Bernard Shaw Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epid... George Bernard Shaw I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.... George Bernard Shaw What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as ... George Bernard Shaw Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for... George Bernard Shaw Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mi... George Bernard Shaw Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.... George Bernard Shaw Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no... George Bernard Shaw Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic co... George Bernard Shaw He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning ... George Bernard Shaw I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get d... George Bernard Shaw If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as w... George Bernard Shaw It is most unwise for people in love to marry.... George Bernard Shaw Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more ard... George Bernard Shaw Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what h... George Bernard Shaw Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of ea... George Bernard Shaw The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.... George Bernard Shaw The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely... George Bernard Shaw There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not obj... George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation.... George Bernard Shaw The people who get on in this world are the people who get... George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything fro... George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning there... George Bernard Shaw Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sor... George Bernard Shaw You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that... George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but t... George Bernard Shaw The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough ... George Bernard Shaw Very few people can afford to be poor.... George Bernard Shaw There are only two classes in good society in England: the... George Bernard Shaw Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.... George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignor... George Bernard Shaw Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desi... George Bernard Shaw Hell is full of musical amateurs.... George Bernard Shaw Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural ... George Bernard Shaw If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.... George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get in... George Bernard Shaw The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.... George Bernard Shaw The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong... George Bernard Shaw Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.... George Bernard Shaw When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he ... George Bernard Shaw It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in f... George Bernard Shaw You cannot be a hero without being a coward.... George Bernard Shaw I want to be all used up when I die.... George Bernard Shaw Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.... George Bernard Shaw I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.... George Bernard Shaw In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot... George Bernard Shaw Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minis... George Bernard Shaw How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a co... George Bernard Shaw We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on e... George Bernard Shaw No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, an... George Bernard Shaw An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except f... George Bernard Shaw Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are ... George Bernard Shaw A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in L... George Bernard Shaw Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared ... George Bernard Shaw I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.... George Bernard Shaw The British soldier can stand up to anything except the Br... George Bernard Shaw An index is a great leveller.... George Bernard Shaw A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.... George Bernard Shaw There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart... George Bernard Shaw When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I... George Bernard Shaw The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for... George Bernard Shaw Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never s... George Bernard Shaw Most people do not pray; they only beg.... George Bernard Shaw Property is organized robbery.... George Bernard Shaw We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but ... George Bernard Shaw People become attached to their burdens sometimes more tha... George Bernard Shaw Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say s... George Bernard Shaw Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of thin... George Bernard Shaw A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.... George Bernard Shaw Syllables govern the world.... George Bernard Shaw People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt thos... George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happe... George Bernard Shaw My reputation grows with every failure.... George Bernard Shaw Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if the... George Bernard Shaw The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not b... George Bernard Shaw Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe... George Bernard Shaw Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their r... George Bernard Shaw A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take t... George Bernard Shaw Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell ... George Bernard Shaw You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his ho... George Bernard Shaw The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the... George Bernard Shaw Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to li... George Bernard Shaw The natural term of the affection of the human animal for ... George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neithe... George Bernard Shaw What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?... Jean Giraudoux The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example... John Ciardi Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of th... John Ciardi You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enou... John Ciardi Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at g... Marsha Norman Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is wri... Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful de... Oscar Wilde These days man knows the price of everything, but the valu... Oscar Wilde He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friend... Oscar Wilde Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever the... Oscar Wilde The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of n... Oscar Wilde True friends stab you in the front.... Oscar Wilde All that I desire to point out is the general principle th... Oscar Wilde Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.... Oscar Wilde Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to... Oscar Wilde Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blo... Oscar Wilde Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.... Oscar Wilde The basis of optimism is sheer terror.... Oscar Wilde One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that... Oscar Wilde By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism ke... Oscar Wilde Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing ... Oscar Wilde The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.... Oscar Wilde I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the... Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.... Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.... Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascina... Oscar Wilde I am not young enough to know everything.... Oscar Wilde There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting w... Oscar Wilde The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It... Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I m... Oscar Wilde Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait ... Oscar Wilde No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he... Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone e... Oscar Wilde Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give... Oscar Wilde Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.... Oscar Wilde A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her w... Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.... Oscar Wilde I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overes... Oscar Wilde Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is ask... Oscar Wilde No man is rich enough to buy back his past.... Oscar Wilde Who, being loved, is poor?... Oscar Wilde How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who ins... Oscar Wilde Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.... Oscar Wilde Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. T... Oscar Wilde All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy... Oscar Wilde When I was young I thought that money was the most importa... Oscar Wilde Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your... Oscar Wilde Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.... Oscar Wilde Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, c... Oscar Wilde Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.... Oscar Wilde A poet can survive everything but a misprint.... Oscar Wilde He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write... Oscar Wilde Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people wh... Oscar Wilde The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...... Oscar Wilde Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptati... Oscar Wilde Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wron... Oscar Wilde A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the... Oscar Wilde A true friend stabs you in the front.... Oscar Wilde Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Consc... Oscar Wilde Everything popular is wrong.... Oscar Wilde I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated ... Oscar Wilde I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.... Oscar Wilde If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriou... Oscar Wilde Life is too important to be taken seriously.... Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.... Oscar Wilde The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of de... Oscar Wilde We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at th... Oscar Wilde Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the u... Oscar Wilde Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.... Oscar Wilde The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is n... Oscar Wilde Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.... Oscar Wilde Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness pr... Oscar Wilde Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom... Oscar Wilde It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially a... Oscar Wilde A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament... Oscar Wilde No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, ... Oscar Wilde When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for ... Oscar Wilde Hatred is blind, as well as love.... Oscar Wilde How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigaret... Oscar Wilde I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it i... Oscar Wilde Women are made to be loved, not understood.... Oscar Wilde There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a marri... Oscar Wilde At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.... Oscar Wilde I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the... Oscar Wilde Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten senten... Oscar Wilde The moment you think you understand a great work of art, i... Oscar Wilde No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It l... Oscar Wilde Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Chr... Oscar Wilde Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, a... Oscar Wilde Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for mos... Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunle... Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and of... Oscar Wilde Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the wor... Oscar Wilde Charity creates a multitude of sins.... Oscar Wilde If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be le... Oscar Wilde The books that the world calls immoral are books that show... Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Book... Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by th... Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they ... Oscar Wilde Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only... Oscar Wilde The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like... Oscar Wilde Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get ... Oscar Wilde Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. C... Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal ... Oscar Wilde I can resist everything except temptation.... Oscar Wilde I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, a... Oscar Wilde America is the only country that went from barbarism to de... Oscar Wilde Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when ... Oscar Wilde This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.... Oscar Wilde Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.... Oscar Wilde Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.... Oscar Wilde Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my mea... Oscar Wilde Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously a... Oscar Wilde Biography lends to death a new terror.... Oscar Wilde All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.... Oscar Wilde As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to hav... Oscar Wilde In married life three is company and two none.... Oscar Wilde Of course America had often been discovered before Columbu... Oscar Wilde Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played domin... Oscar Wilde The General was essentially a man of peace, except of cour... Oscar Wilde To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to los... Oscar Wilde Work is the curse of the drinking classes.... Oscar Wilde I have nothing to declare except my genuis.... Oscar Wilde It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is... Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The ... Oscar Wilde There is only one thing in life worse than being talked ab... Oscar Wilde The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that... Oscar Wilde I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending... Oscar Wilde There is no sin except stupidity.... Oscar Wilde To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intelle... Oscar Wilde The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything... Oscar Wilde There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.... Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.... Oscar Wilde She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enoug... Oscar Wilde The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invi... Oscar Wilde It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People ar... Oscar Wilde Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, ... Oscar Wilde In America the President reigns for four years, and Journa... Oscar Wilde One should always play fairly when one has the winning car... Oscar Wilde An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called ... Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.... Oscar Wilde Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good socie... Oscar Wilde As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have ... Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have ... Oscar Wilde If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, th... Oscar Wilde Illusion is the first of all pleasures.... Oscar Wilde In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.... Oscar Wilde It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little us... Oscar Wilde Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets... Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and li... Oscar Wilde Only the shallow know themselves.... Oscar Wilde Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.... Oscar Wilde Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.... Oscar Wilde Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.... Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that j... Oscar Wilde Why was I born with such contemporaries?... Oscar Wilde I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do w... Oscar Wilde The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everyt... Oscar Wilde Those whom the gods love grow young.... Oscar Wilde In America the young are always ready to give to those who... Oscar Wilde Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and di... Oscar Wilde The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that c... Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send u... Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. The... Oscar Wilde I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent int... Oscar Wilde There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinat... Oscar Wilde If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my l... Oscar Wilde What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,... Oscar Wilde Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.... Oscar Wilde One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which peo... Oscar Wilde It is through art, and through art only, that we can reali... Oscar Wilde When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.... Oscar Wilde He was always late on principle, his principle being that ... Oscar Wilde He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when th... Oscar Wilde The truth is rarely pure and never simple.... Oscar Wilde I never travel without my diary. One should always have so... Oscar Wilde Alas, I am dying beyond my means.... Oscar Wilde When good Americans die they go to Paris.... Oscar Wilde It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said t... Oscar Wilde I see when men love women. They give them but a little of ... Oscar Wilde One should always be in love. That is the reason one shoul... Oscar Wilde Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.... Oscar Wilde It is what you read when you don't have to that determines... Oscar Wilde Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remembe... Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.... Oscar Wilde All art is quite useless.... Oscar Wilde The world is divided into two classes, those who believe t... Oscar Wilde Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.... Oscar Wilde The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominat... Oscar Wilde As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own... Oscar Wilde My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myse... Oscar Wilde Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our live... Oscar Wilde The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is wha... Oscar Wilde In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or F... Oscar Wilde It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowaday... Oscar Wilde In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfas... Oscar Wilde If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one pl... Oscar Wilde If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the I... Paddy Chayefsky Television is democracy at its ugliest.... Pedro Calderon de la Barca When love is not madness, it is not love.... Pedro Calderon de la Barca 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of hea... Pedro Calderon de la Barca Love that is not madness is not love.... Pedro Calderon de la Barca One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to us... Pedro Calderon de la Barca For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dr... Pedro Calderon de la Barca What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natu... Pedro Calderon de la Barca Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which... Pedro Calderon de la Barca For man's greatest crime is to have been born.... Pedro Calderon de la Barca But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matte... Pedro Calderon de la Barca These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking i... Tennessee Williams Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitel... Tennessee Williams The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.... Tennessee Williams Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for... Tennessee Williams Time is the longest distance between two places.... Tom Stoppard It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.... Tom Stoppard Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.... William Shakespeare Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.... William Shakespeare O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest hea... William Shakespeare The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.... William Shakespeare No legacy is so rich as honesty.... William Shakespeare Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, ... William Shakespeare The lady doth protest too much, methinks.... William Shakespeare Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft m... William Shakespeare It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselve... William Shakespeare Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achi... William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinit... William Shakespeare As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us ... William Shakespeare This above all; to thine own self be true.... William Shakespeare Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.... William Shakespeare Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.... William Shakespeare The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.... William Shakespeare Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it i... William Shakespeare God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.... William Shakespeare Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant ne... William Shakespeare I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.... William Shakespeare My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjo... William Shakespeare So shines a good deed in a weary world.... William Shakespeare Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.... William Shakespeare To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the nigh... William Shakespeare As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fi... William Shakespeare Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.... William Shakespeare One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.... William Shakespeare And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongue... William Shakespeare The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.... William Shakespeare Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.... William Shakespeare A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows him... William Shakespeare Brevity is the soul of wit.... William Shakespeare If music be the food of love, play on.... William Shakespeare It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observ... William Shakespeare O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outwa... William Shakespeare The course of true love never did run smooth.... William Shakespeare There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it ... William Shakespeare What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how in... William Shakespeare What is past is prologue.... William Shakespeare When we are born we cry that we are come to this great sta... William Shakespeare But will they come when you do call for them?... William Shakespeare I dote on his very absence.... William Shakespeare Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly ba... William Shakespeare Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own co... William Shakespeare The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and... William Shakespeare Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from f... William Shakespeare He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.... William Shakespeare It is a wise father that knows his own child.... William Shakespeare When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son giv... William Shakespeare The love of heaven makes one heavenly.... William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing where... William Shakespeare The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved wi... William Shakespeare Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have... William Shakespeare Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, ... William Shakespeare Where every something, being blent together turns to a wil... William Shakespeare We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, sinc... William Shakespeare Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones e... William Shakespeare When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in batt... William Shakespeare Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to ... William Shakespeare Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the hear... William Shakespeare Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.... William Shakespeare Lawless are they that make their wills their law.... William Shakespeare Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into sla... William Shakespeare The golden age is before us, not behind us.... William Shakespeare Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.... William Shakespeare 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them... William Shakespeare Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipp... William Shakespeare Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.... William Shakespeare The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is... William Shakespeare Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.... William Shakespeare False face must hide what the false heart doth know.... William Shakespeare Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poo... William Shakespeare I was adored once too.... William Shakespeare Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.... William Shakespeare Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.... William Shakespeare Neither a borrower nor a lender be.... William Shakespeare The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft inte... William Shakespeare Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive... William Shakespeare It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.... William Shakespeare The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.... William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other n... William Shakespeare I am not bound to please thee with my answer.... William Shakespeare He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.... William Shakespeare My pride fell with my fortunes.... William Shakespeare Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.... William Shakespeare Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.... William Shakespeare Farewell, fair cruelty.... William Shakespeare Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.... William Shakespeare So foul and fair a day I have not seen.... William Shakespeare Cudgel thy brains no more about it.... William Shakespeare Why this is very midsummer madness.... William Shakespeare I will praise any man that will praise me.... William Shakespeare Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!... William Shakespeare How now, wit! Whither wander you?... William Shakespeare Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings... William Shakespeare He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.... William Shakespeare I bear a charmed life.... William Shakespeare They say miracles are past.... William Shakespeare The attempt and not the deed confounds us.... William Shakespeare The wheel is come full circle.... William Shakespeare If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.... William Shakespeare If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grai... William Shakespeare The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination a... William Shakespeare A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both part... William Shakespeare Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yo... William Shakespeare My library was dukedom large enough.... William Shakespeare Talking isn't doing It is a kind of good deed to say well;... William Shakespeare Men shut their doors against a setting sun.... William Shakespeare In time we hate that which we often fear.... William Shakespeare How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did e... William Shakespeare Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it d... William Shakespeare Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.... William Shakespeare To be, or not to be: that is the question.... William Shakespeare 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.... William Shakespeare Alas, how love can trifle with itself!... William Shakespeare He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will stri... William Shakespeare He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.... William Shakespeare Hell is empty and all the devils are here.... William Shakespeare There is no darkness but ignorance.... William Shakespeare As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, ... William Shakespeare By that sin fell the angels.... William Shakespeare Such seems your beauty still.... William Shakespeare And summer's lease hath all too short a date.... William Shakespeare But when they seldom come, they wished for come.... William Shakespeare And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.... William Shakespeare Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.... William Shakespeare They do not love that do not show their love.... William Shakespeare He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.... William Shakespeare Let no such man be trusted.... William Shakespeare Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.... William Shakespeare To their right praise and true perfection!... William Shakespeare Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.... William Shakespeare If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we no... William Shakespeare Time and the hour run through the roughest day.... William Shakespeare Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.... William Shakespeare Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortune... William Shakespeare The will of man is by his reason swayed.... William Shakespeare Expectation is the root of all heartache.... William Shakespeare April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.... William Shakespeare Parting is such sweet sorrow.... William Shakespeare Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou up... William Shakespeare Nothing can come of nothing.... William Shakespeare If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country l... William Shakespeare The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler retu... William Shakespeare Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly... William Shakespeare O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to b... William Shakespeare Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor fa... William Shakespeare The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.... William Shakespeare Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lyi... William Shakespeare My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.... William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.... William Shakespeare Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.... William Shakespeare The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow o... William Shakespeare How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a g... William Shakespeare In a false quarrel there is no true valor.... William Shakespeare O, had I but followed the arts!... William Shakespeare The object of art is to give life a shape.... William Shakespeare To fear the worst oft cures the worse.... William Shakespeare Art made tongue-tied by authority.... William Shakespeare O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable see... William Shakespeare Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts an... William Shakespeare The valiant never taste of death but once.... William Shakespeare If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, cha... William Shakespeare Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.... William Shakespeare Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'.... William Shakespeare He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.... William Shakespeare There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face... William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending sou... William Shakespeare Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.... William Shakespeare Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.... William Shakespeare Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do ou... William Shakespeare How long a time lies in one little word?... William Shakespeare Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, ... William Shakespeare Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks ... William Shakespeare Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.... William Shakespeare Boldness be my friend.... William Shakespeare For my part, it was Greek to me.... William Shakespeare It provokes the desire but it take away the performance.... William Shakespeare Having nothing, nothing can he lose.... William Shakespeare We know what we are, but know not what we may be.... William Shakespeare Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.... William Shakespeare Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids... William Shakespeare Words without thoughts never to heaven go.... William Shakespeare So wise so young, they say, do never live long.... William Shakespeare I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman t... William Shakespeare Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers ... William Shakespeare Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light i... William Shakespeare Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.... William Shakespeare I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly,... William Shakespeare O! What a noble mind is here o'erthrown.... William Shakespeare O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in te... William Shakespeare How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankle... William Shakespeare How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds... William Shakespeare Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be... William Shakespeare Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear... William Shakespeare All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely ... Wilson Mizner When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but w... Zora Neale Hurston Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place....

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