Quotes 561 till 580 of 655.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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We really have everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
The Canterville Ghost -
We should tell our kids to just have fun, participate and not get bent on winning or losing. But every coach, when they say that, they say it tongue in cheek, 'Don't worry about winning': If you win I'll get you ice cream, but if you lose I'm going to pout in the car.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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We're a long way away from someone like Willie Pep winning a round without throwing a punch.
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Well, there IS a good deal to be said for blushing, if one can do it at the proper moment.
A Woman of No Importance (1893) -
What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.
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What of Art?
- It is a malady.
Love?
- An Illusion.
Religion?
- The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
- Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
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What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.
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When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
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When Christ says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so, and because love is more beautiful than hate.
The Profundis
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