Quotes 1301 till 1320 of 4330.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind.The Works of Ben Jonson, Second Folio IX, My Picture Left in Scotland, lines 1-5. -
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
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I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
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I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.
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I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
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I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
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I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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