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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5fbeb95 | Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 1598cca | Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. | god love | Oscar Wilde | |
| 275d2a9 | Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them. | reality truth | Oscar Wilde | |
| 47d5b63 | Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 9789ec8 | Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude.. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 10517dc | LADY BRACKNELL Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point. To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. | humor women | Oscar Wilde | |
| f527f62 | I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4223a15 | I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| d441c21 | The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy hair. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| eba8f46 | Down the long and silent street, | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fc2d74a | To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c19ef72 | Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| fb78fd9 | It's most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his wife in public. It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. The world has grown so suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 242a899 | Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 4f4f152 | It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us. Else what use is love at all? | Oscar Wilde | ||
| 33e4150 | Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| dca3df8 | It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. | Oscar Wilde | ||
| c2cd2f2 | The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them. | ideal names | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| ca4f6ad | An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is. | Robert T. Kiyosaki | ||
| 7f6b658 | Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . --Alexa.. | love relationships | Robert Fulghum | |
| 30141ff | And I'm not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas. | Robert Fulghum | ||
| 7f20a19 | If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it...you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do. | Leon Uris | ||
| a2aeb77 | That isn't a desperate act. That's a PLAN. | James A. Owen | ||
| 225e440 | To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration. | Robert Graves | ||
| 56b33cb | Pay it forward. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| c5bf46f | Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-.. | heinlein history starship-troopers war | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| 1bcba56 | Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically. | patriarchy prudence | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| a717240 | The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death and that we are all in for---if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most. | Robert A. Heinlein | ||
| 34ac630 | He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. | Stephen Crane | ||
| ee2ed17 | Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| dcf0fa6 | I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of th.. | for-whom-the-bell-tolls soldiers war | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 29cad43 | I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the snow was dry and powdery and hare-tracks in the snow and the peasants took off their hats and called you Lord and there was good hunting. I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all ther.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2f67450 | Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| cf59a7c | Oh, don't go to hell," I said. "Stick around. We're just starting lunch." | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 348f90d | Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates. | courage glory honor | Ernest Hemingway | |
| 01cf01c | Here's a taxidermist's," Bill said. "Want to buy anything? Nice stuffed dog?" "Come on," I said. "You're pie-eyed." "Pretty nice stuffed dogs," Bill said. "Certainly brighten up your flat." "Come on." "Just one stuffed dog. I can take 'em or leave 'em alone. But listen, Jake. Just one stuffed dog." "Come on." "Mean everything in the world to you after you bought it. Simple exchange of values. You give them money. They give you a stuffed d.. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 89e929a | Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. | Ernest Hemingway | ||
| 2bc1d28 | I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free. | Tim Winton | ||
| 74cbe17 | Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. | life mask secret | Mary Balogh | |
| e1d1c27 | Love, I have discovered, does not judge. It just is. | Mary Balogh | ||
| fb62407 | Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a lifetime. It was knowing when to abandon a dream, perhaps, that mattered and distinguished the successful people in life from the sad, embittered persons who never moved on from the first of life's great disappointments. Or from the airy dreamer.. | hopes | Mary Balogh | |
| 0b052d5 | How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead. | Christopher Pike | ||
| 4315fc4 | You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly | Christopher Pike | ||
| 215aba7 | As to blood--ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty. | Christopher Pike |