Quotes 21 till 40 of 41.
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Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
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Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
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The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as ''Soho'' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
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There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 15 -
This woman did not fly to extremes; she lived there.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968) Ch. 9 -
Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?''
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