My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
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That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
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The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst."
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear", Act 4 scene 1
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I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: The Apple Cart (1930)
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet (1911) "Limits to Toleration
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit
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Stranger in a strange country.
Author: Sophocles
Source: Oedipus at Colonus
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One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954, chapter 2
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Pygmalion (1916) preface
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman (1903) act 3
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