"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

Wilde, Oscar on language   

"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."

Wilde, Oscar on liberty   

"He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone."

Wilde, Oscar on aphorisms and epigrams   

"Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!"

Wilde, Oscar on guests   

"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public."

Wilde, Oscar on flirting
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."

Wilde, Oscar on america
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on history and historians
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"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on competition
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"Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect."

Lion, The on regret
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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Miller, Arthur on regret
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"The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."

Barthes, Roland on acting and actors   

"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."

Barrymore, John on america
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"America is a land where men govern, but women rule."

Brown, John Mason on america
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Chaplin, Charlie on america
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"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."

Dimnet, Ernest on america   

"In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."

Banks-Smith, Nancy on architecture   

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on adversity
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on promises
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"Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made."

Howe, Edgar Watson on promises   

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on promises
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"Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms."

Ruckett on promises   

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."

Thatcher, Margaret on opinions   

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on fear
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"Failure is not an option."

Movie, Apollo 13 on failure
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"Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get."

Movie, Forrest Gump on life   

"Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money."

Bierce, Ambrose on architecture   

"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."

Brancusi, Constantin on architecture
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Johnson, Philip on architecture   

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."

Sexton, Anne on fathers
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