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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather, I am quite content with philosophical contemplation.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question--simple curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose

I am prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement. I think that would be a rather nice excuse: it would have all the surprise of candour.

Good heavens!  Is marriage so demoralizing as that? Lane.  I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir.  I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.  I have only been married once.  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon.

No one survives being over-estimated, nor is there any surer way of destroying an author's reputation than to glorify him without judgement and to praise him without tact.

Oh, I like tedious, practical subjects. What I don't like are tedious, practical people. There is a wide difference.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity.

And when he roared into your driveway at night, you knew he was bringing music, whether you wanted it or not.

What tense would you choose to live in? I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle – in the 'what ought to be.

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Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

What did Sappho of Lesbos teach but how to love women?

The rest night knows, and we, and the tower that sees, and the light that showed me a path through the sea.

And last her voice remained. Vanished in forest

If a god said 'Live, and set love aside' I'd say 'no'! Girls are such sweet misfortune.

Even the Sun, whose star-born radiance Governs all the world, became the thrall of love.

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

I'm a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don't need training – they just are.

Nothing to be done about it except give her a reproachful look. I did this. It made no impression whatever, and she proceeded.