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- I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
- The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
- I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am…
- I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.
- Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
- His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
- Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really…
- The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
- I can resist everything except temptation.
- There is no sin except stupidity.
- When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
- I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
- One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
- I never change, except in my affections.
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?…
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
- You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you.…
- Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
- All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
- You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians…
- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
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- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
- Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
- We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,… — Francis Bacon
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
- It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. — Russell Baker