Quote #15472
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
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I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
Quote #34619
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
Quote #1174
Oscar Wilde: “I wish I had said that.” Whistler: “You will, Oscar; you will.
Quote #16622
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River,...
Quote #20249
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief...
Quote #8953
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Quote #29382
This great misfortune – to be incapable of solitude.
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The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown,...
Quote #23245
My loathings are simple stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.