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Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

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Oscar Wilde: In married life...

Oscar Wilde: In married life...

In married life three is company and two is none.

Source: The Importance of Being...

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Oscar Wilde: It is confession,...

Oscar Wilde: It is confession,...

It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Source: The Picture of...

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William Shakespeare: A thousand moral...

William Shakespeare: A thousand moral...

A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than...

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George Bernard Shaw: Science is always...

George Bernard Shaw: Science is always...

Science is always wrong -- it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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George Bernard Shaw: The doctor learns...

George Bernard Shaw: The doctor learns...

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is...

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George Bernard Shaw: There are two...

George Bernard Shaw: There are two...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain...

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George Bernard Shaw: Very nice sort...

George Bernard Shaw: Very nice sort...

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

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George Bernard Shaw: We must not...

George Bernard Shaw: We must not...

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we...

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George Bernard Shaw: Use your health...

George Bernard Shaw: Use your health...

Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die, and do...

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George Bernard Shaw: We have no...

George Bernard Shaw: We have no...

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing...

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George Bernard Shaw: You don't learn...

George Bernard Shaw: You don't learn...

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered...

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William Shakespeare: If music be...

William Shakespeare: If music be...

If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so...

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William Shakespeare: Every good servant...

William Shakespeare: Every good servant...

Every good servant does not all commands.

Source: Cymbeline, V:1
-- William...

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William Shakespeare: I may justly...

William Shakespeare: I may justly...

I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, 'I came, saw and overcame'.

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William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

William Shakespeare: Haste still pays...

Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for...

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William Shakespeare: Some rise by...

William Shakespeare: Some rise by...

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Source: Measure for Measure, II. i....

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William Shakespeare: I have not...

William Shakespeare: I have not...

I have not that alacrity of spirit,
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have.


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William Shakespeare: Frame your mind...

William Shakespeare: Frame your mind...

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment
Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.


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George Bernard Shaw: It does not...

George Bernard Shaw: It does not...

It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in...

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