Luck Quotes
1913 quotes by 1325 authors
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If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.
— Peter Medawar
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Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.
— Geoffrey Madan
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Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.
— W. S. Gilbert
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This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.
— Peter Ustinov
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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
— Oscar Wilde
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
— Joseph Heller
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A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.
— William J. Johnston
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The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
— Flann O'Brien
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Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.
— A. P. Herbert
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Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.
— Oscar Wilde
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You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.
— Osbert Lancaster
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
— Leo Rosten
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The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.
— John Mortimer
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He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.
— Sam Houston
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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You must come again when you have less time.
— Walter Sickert
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An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in…
— Nancy Mitford
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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