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- Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
- I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
- America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the…
- Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
- 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…
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
- You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care…
- They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
- Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
- Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
- Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
- I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious…
- In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work…
- If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
- I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of…
- Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself…
- It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking…
- Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior…
- Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his…
- Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong