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"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on daughters
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"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."

Croesus on fathers and sons
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Waitley, Denis on mistakes
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"We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living."

Repound, Renee on joy    Share

"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

Geldof, Bob on nationalities and nationalism
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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

O'Malley, Austin on nationalities and nationalism    Share

"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

Bradbury, Malcolm on nations    Share

"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."

Bradbury, Malcolm on manners    Share

"The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt."

Chandler, Raymond on america
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"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

Mikes, George on order    Share

"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on anger
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"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."

Gallico, Paul on insults
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"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."

Rostand, Jean on prejudice
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

Rostand, Jean on admiration    Share

"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Rostand, Jean on age and aging
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"Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts."

Unknown, Source on prejudice    Share

"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on prejudice
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"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

Anderson, Marian on fear
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"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca on weakness
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"It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on."

Unknown, Source on fools and foolishness
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"However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police."

Crisp, Quentin on police    Share

"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on mistakes    Share

"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"It is a beautiful trait in the lovers character, that they think no evil of the object loved."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on love
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"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!"

Day, Doris on age and aging
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"Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him."

Duras, Marguerite on frigidity    Share

"There must be some reason why a man must be convinced, while a woman must be persuaded."

Fleming, Robert B. on men
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"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on losers and losing
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"A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on gentlemen
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"No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."

Spencer, Herbert on marriage    Share

"If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society."

Proverb, Greek on respectability    Share

"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine."

Gay, John on company    Share

"A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one."

Crisp, Quentin on seduction
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!"

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."

Wilde, Oscar on compliments
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