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- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
- The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
- At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after…
- The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past…
- Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
- It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one…
- If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was…
- We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public…
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
- Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
- I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
- Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I…
- Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
- Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
- Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me,…
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
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