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George Bernard Shaw: Truth telling is...

George Bernard Shaw: Truth telling is...

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Source: Heartbreak...

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George Bernard Shaw: We must always...

George Bernard Shaw: We must always...

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to...

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George Bernard Shaw: When a thing...

George Bernard Shaw: When a thing...

When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: Where there is...

George Bernard Shaw: Where there is...

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Source:
-- George...

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George Bernard Shaw: When you are...

George Bernard Shaw: When you are...

When you are so poor that you cannot afford to refuse eighteenpence from a man who is too poor to pay you any more, it...

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William Shakespeare: There's small choice...

William Shakespeare: There's small choice...

There's small choice in rotten apples.

Source: The Taming of the Shrew, I. i....

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William Shakespeare: Our poesy is...

William Shakespeare: Our poesy is...

Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes
From whence 'tis nourished.


Source: Timon of...

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William Shakespeare: You undergo too...

William Shakespeare: You undergo too...

You undergo too strict a paradox,
Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:
Your words have took such pains as if...

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Alfred Hitchcock: There is nothing...

Alfred Hitchcock: There is nothing...

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very...

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Oscar Wilde: To make a...

Oscar Wilde: To make a...

To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know...

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Oscar Wilde: Art never expresses...

Oscar Wilde: Art never expresses...

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Source: The Decay of Lying.
-- Oscar...

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Oscar Wilde: I choose my...

Oscar Wilde: I choose my...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good...

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Oscar Wilde: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Source: Vivian, in The Decay...

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Oscar Wilde: Nobody of any...

Oscar Wilde: Nobody of any...

Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old...

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Alexander Pope: With too much...

Alexander Pope: With too much...

With too much quickness ever to be taught;
With too much thinking to have common...

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William Shakespeare: Our remedies oft...

William Shakespeare: Our remedies oft...

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,
Which we ascribe to heaven.


Source: All's...

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William Shakespeare: A man whom...

William Shakespeare: A man whom...

A man whom both the waters and the wind,
In that vast tennis-court, have made the ball
For them to play...

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William Shakespeare: Stay we no...

William Shakespeare: Stay we no...

Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown,
But sound the trumpets, and about our task.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

O great and sane and simple race of brutes
That own no lust because they have no law!


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Round thee with...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Round thee with...

Round thee with the breeze of song
To stir a little praise of dust.


Source: In...

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