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- Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- 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…
- Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
- The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades,…
- What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
- Authority is quite degrading.
- Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are…
- The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one…
- No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.…
- All art is quite useless.
- I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
- No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
- My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about…
- Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
- To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
- Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell…
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- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit… — David Attenborough
- I got into trouble a while ago for saying that I thought the internet led to increased literacy - people scolded me… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
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- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden