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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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Subject:
Life
Art
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Subject:
Wealth
Soul
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Subject:
Miscellaneous
Opinions
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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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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Subject:
Life
Human Nature
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Subject:
Common Sense
Mistakes
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Subject:
Acting
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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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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams
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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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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Subject:
Life
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Subject:
Shallow
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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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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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I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Subject:
Argument & Debate
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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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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Subject:
Civilization
Nation
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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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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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