Quotes 141 till 160 of 548.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all. It is a very dangerous thing to know one's friends.
The remarkable Rocket -
I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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I don't think about that. I wasn't a kid growing up saying one day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn't on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in goal is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.
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I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) h. 15 -
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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