Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 15856.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
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Among them, but not of them.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, 113 -
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
The Bright Side of Billy Wilder (1970) -
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
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An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say ''Gentlemen'' to the person with whom he is conversing.
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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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An apology for the actions of some troops who, of course, are not representative of the majority of the armed forces here, I think that would have been useful and it would have helped to some extent.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
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An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark, that is critical genius.
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