Quotes 121 till 140 of 655.
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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
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For me the best thing about winning an award is when the people cheer for your win. When you can see that the people are really happy that you are winning something, that's the most reward thing in the world.
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For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'
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For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
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Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once!
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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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