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Oscar Wilde: Through our sunless...

Oscar Wilde: Through our sunless...

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her....

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Oscar Wilde: I was saying,...

Oscar Wilde: I was saying,...

I was saying, continued the Rocket, I was saying - What was I saying? You were talking about yourself, replied the...

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Oscar Wilde: It is very...

Oscar Wilde: It is very...

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false...

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Oscar Wilde: If property had...

Oscar Wilde: If property had...

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we...

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Oscar Wilde: The public is...

Oscar Wilde: The public is...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is...

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Oscar Wilde: As long as...

Oscar Wilde: As long as...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will...

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Oscar Wilde: No, Ernest, don't...

Oscar Wilde: No, Ernest, don't...

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like glimpses of...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Like glimpses of...

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

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

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will drink<br>Life...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I will drink
Life...

I will drink
Life to the lees.


Source: Ulysses, 6
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live and lie...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Live and lie...

Live and lie reclined
On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.


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William Shakespeare: A snapper-up of...

William Shakespeare: A snapper-up of...

A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.

Source: The Winter's Tale, IV. ii....

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William Shakespeare: O heaven! were...

William Shakespeare: O heaven! were...

O heaven! were man
But constant, he were perfect.


Source: The Two Gentlemen of...

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William Shakespeare: Beauty itself doth...

William Shakespeare: Beauty itself doth...

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.


Source:...

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William Shakespeare: Of folded schedules...

William Shakespeare: Of folded schedules...

Of folded schedules had she many a one,
Which she perused, sigh'd, tore, and gave the flood;
Crack'd many a ring...

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Jean Anouilh: The object of...

Jean Anouilh: The object of...

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Source: The Rehearsal.
-- Jean...

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Samuel Goldwyn: Never make forecasts,...

Samuel Goldwyn: Never make forecasts,...

Never make forecasts, especially about the future.

Source: In Quotable Business,...

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Samuel Goldwyn: From success you...

Samuel Goldwyn: From success you...

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings...

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Woody Allen: I've never been...

Woody Allen: I've never been...

I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Source: International Herald...

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Fred Allen: California is a...

Fred Allen: California is a...

California is a great place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

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