Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Subject:
Life
Simplicity
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Subject:
Wisdom
Past
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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
Subject:
Journalism
Media
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Subject:
Truth
Human Nature
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Subject:
Happiness
Marriage
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Subject:
Life
Human Nature
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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Only the shallow know themselves.
Subject:
Shallow
Source: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
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To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Subject:
Parents
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895, Act I
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Subject:
Wisdom
Cynicism
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Subject:
Love & Romance
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Subject:
Shallow
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They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
Subject:
Criticism
Art
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Subject:
Life
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Subject:
Acting
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
Subject:
Religious
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Subject:
Kindness
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Subject:
Opinions
Sarcasm
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Subject:
Books
Shame
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Subject:
Appearance & Attitudes
Morality
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