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« on: August 06, 2006, 07:18:23 pm »
Just Because I forgot how awesome he was for a split second :
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutley fatal"
"A man can be happy with any woman aslong as he does not love her"
"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much"
"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up"
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadance without civilisation in between"
"Anyone who lives within their means, lacks imagination"
"Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing"
"At twilight nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from poets"
"Biography lends to death a new terror"
"Consistancy is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"
"Genius is born - not paid"
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones"
"I am not young enough to know everything"
"I think that god, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability"
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma, In the afternoon I put it back again"
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you"
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures"
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is no useless information"
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person, give him a mask and he will tell you the truth"
"Morallity, like art, means drawing a line someplace"
"Most modern calenders mar the simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event"
"Music always makes one feel romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves, which is the same thing nowadays"
"One can surve anything nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"
"One should always play fairly, when one has the winning cards"
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow"
"The aim of life is self-development, to realize ones nature perfectly, that is what each of us is here for"
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on, It is never of use to oneself"
"The True mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"
"There are only two kinds of people that are fascinating : People who know everything, and people who know nothing"
"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity"
"We live in an age when unnecassary things are our only necessities"
"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow"
"Whenever people agree wit me I always feel I must be wrong"
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details, details are always vulgar"
"The only thing that sustains one through life is the conciousness of the immense inferiority of everyone else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated"
"The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly decieved"
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers"
"Only Dull people are brilliant at brekfast"
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes"
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other's"
"I can resist anything but temptation"
"It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious"
"Life is far too important a thing to ever talk serious about"
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes"
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morallity"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing"
"Only the shallow know themselves"
"Vile deeds like posion weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there"
"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, ofcourse language"
"But what is the difference between literature and Journalism?
....Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read. That is all."
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art"
"The public is wonderfully tolerant, they forgive everything except genius"
"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance to the dictates of reason"
"The truth is rarely pure, and never simple"
"To lose one parent Mr Worthing, may be regarded as misfortune, to lose both looks like carelessness"
"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"
"It is better to have a permanent income, than to be fascinating"
"A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies"
"Children begin by loving their parents, as they grow older they judge them, sometimes they forgive them"
"I can believe anything, provided it is quite incredible"
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world"
"I love acting, its so much more real than life"
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when its too late that the only things one never regrets are ones mistakes"
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing"
"Perhaps, after all, america never has been discovered. I myself would say it has merely been detected"
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror"
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it"
"There are many things we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up"
"There is a luxusry of self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no-one else has the right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest that gives us absolution"
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be repectable"
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck, men risk theirs"
"Women love us for our defects, if we have enough of them they will forgive us everything, even our intellects"
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written"
"Anyone can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success"
"I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means"
