Except Quotes
4383 Except quotes by 2703 unique authors
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All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.
— Galen
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Novels, except as aids to masturbation, play no part in contemporary life.
— Gore Vidal
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Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.
— Jeremy Bentham
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The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this -- that we…
— John Ruskin
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I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
— Al Capone
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Songwriting is like editing. You write down all this stuff - all this bad, stupid stuff - and then you have to get rid of…
— Juliana Hatfield
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An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.
— Robert Breault
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The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive — a…
— Ayn Rand
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I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a…
— Gary Saul Morson
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All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see…
— Burgess Meredith
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If you're doing well, you're a target, nobody's interested in you except how you can be of use to them.
— Richard E. Grant
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
— Bernard DeVoto
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This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.
— S. J. Perelman
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No one is qualified to converse in public except those contented to do without such conversation.
— Thomas a Kempis
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The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.
— Francois Fenelon
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to…
— Samuel Johnson
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People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not…
— George Santayana
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No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the…
— Elbert Hubbard
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What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?
— Euripides
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Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
— Jacques Barzun
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By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
— Jacques Barzun
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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.
— O. Henry
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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each…
— John Steinbeck
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