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July 30, 2012 by kevinstilley

Oscar Wilde – select quotes

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
~ in The Importance of Being Earnest

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

Spies are of no use nowadays. Their profession is over. The newspapers do their work instead.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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December 8, 2010 by kevinstilley

Woody Allen – select quotes

Can we actually know the universe? My goodness, it is hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
~ in Without Feathers

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

I’m not afraid of death. It’s just that I don’t want to be there when it happens.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

The lion and the lamb will lie down together, but the lamb won’t get much sleep.

The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God’s mind–a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you just made a down payment on a house.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.

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July 18, 2009 by kevinstilley

Henry Louis Mencken – select quotes

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Philosophy consists largely of one philosopher arguing that all the others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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