Quotes with said-that

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  • Oscar Wilde Well, there IS a good deal to be said for blushing, if one can do it at the proper moment.
    Source: A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • André Gide What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barry McCaffrey What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Babbitt What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Carly Fiorina What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Oscar Wilde What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Francis Bacon What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Eugène Delacroix What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.
    Eugène Delacroix
    French artist (1798 - 1863)
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  • Samuel Johnson What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • E. M. Cioran What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • A. A. Milne What? said Piglet, with a jump. And then, to show that he hadn't been frightened, he jumped up and down once or twice more in an exercising sort of way.
    Source: Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Chapter Three
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Frank Sinatra Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.
    Frank Sinatra
    American singer, actor, and producer (1915 - 1998)
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  • Seneca Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Anatole France When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Margaret Sackville When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.
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  • Lou Holtz When all is said and done, more is said than done.
    Lou Holtz
    American football coach (1937 - 1980)
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