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Oscar Wilde: Really, if the...

Oscar Wilde: Really, if the...

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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William Shakespeare: A jewel in...

William Shakespeare: A jewel in...

A jewel in a ten-times-barred-up chest
Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast.
Mine honour is my life; both grow in...

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William Shakespeare: Being of no...

William Shakespeare: Being of no...

Being of no power to make his wishes good:
His promises fly so beyond his state
That what he speaks is all in...

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George Bernard Shaw: Nothing makes a...

George Bernard Shaw: Nothing makes a...

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Source: Brassbound, in Captain Brassbound's...

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George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

We are a nation of governesses.

Source: New Statesman (London, 12 April...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is wrong...

George Bernard Shaw: What is wrong...

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who...

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Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate...

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Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

Oscar Wilde: All charming people,...

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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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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Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...

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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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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Time driveth onward...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Time driveth onward...

Time driveth onward fast,
And in a little while our lips are dumb.
Let us alone. What is it that will...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We have more...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We have more...

We have more than we use.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library,...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We cannot see...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We cannot see...

We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wherever work is...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Wherever work is...

Wherever work is done, victory is attained.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: What you are...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: What you are...

What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Source:...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: You shall have...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: You shall have...

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God: you shall not have both.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The surest poison...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The surest poison...

The surest poison is time.

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: There is a...

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The soul's emphasis...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The soul's emphasis...

The soul's emphasis is always right.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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