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William Shakespeare: Life is as...

William Shakespeare: Life is as...

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale,
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.


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William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

William Shakespeare: That smooth-fac'd gentleman,...

That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,
Commodity, the bias of the world.


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William Shakespeare: For my own...

William Shakespeare: For my own...

For my own part, it was Greek to me.

Source: Julius Caesar, I. i. (288).
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William Shakespeare: It adds a...

William Shakespeare: It adds a...

It adds a precious seeing to the eye;
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;
A lover's ear will hear the...

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William Shakespeare: Remuneration! O! that's...

William Shakespeare: Remuneration! O! that's...

Remuneration! O! that's the Latin word for three farthings.

Source: Love's Labour's...

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William Shakespeare: He hath never...

William Shakespeare: He hath never...

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink;...

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William Shakespeare: Warble, child; make...

William Shakespeare: Warble, child; make...

Warble, child; make passionate my sense of hearing.

Source: Love's Labour's Lost,...

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William Shakespeare: I count myself...

William Shakespeare: I count myself...

I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul remembering my good friends.


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William Shakespeare: Since every Jack...

William Shakespeare: Since every Jack...

Since every Jack became a gentleman
There's many a gentle person made a Jack.


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Oscar Wilde: What is said...

Oscar Wilde: What is said...

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

Source: De Profundis,...

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Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...

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Oscar Wilde: Dullness is the...

Oscar Wilde: Dullness is the...

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Source: Phrases and Philosophies for...

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Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely...

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Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the...

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Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

A mask tells us more than a face.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Oscar Wilde: That is what...

Oscar Wilde: That is what...

That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as...

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Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Oscar Wilde: Civilization requires slaves....

Civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery...

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Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Oscar Wilde: Fashion is the...

Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal.

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Brendan Behan: There's no one,...

Brendan Behan: There's no one,...

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Source: In Treasury of Humorous...

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Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Zora Neale Hurston: Nothing that God...

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

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