• Art and Culture

  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

  4.4 · 51 votes · 190 reads

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• Various

  There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  3.4 · 11 votes · 130 reads

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• Virtues

  There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  4.9 · 36 votes · 106 reads

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• Government and Politics

  There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the

  3.8 · 42 votes · 129 reads

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• Feelings

  There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  3.3 · 21 votes · 144 reads

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• Feelings

  There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  3.0 · 13 votes · 149 reads

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• Art and Culture

  There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.

  3.5 · 11 votes · 77 reads

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• Various

  There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

  3.8 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• Various

  There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  3.2 · 12 votes · 110 reads

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• Society

  There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  3.8 · 33 votes · 136 reads

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• Nature

  There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

  3.5 · 12 votes · 102 reads

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• Various

  There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  4.6 · 53 votes · 89 reads

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• Virtues

  There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

  3.5 · 35 votes · 133 reads

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• Society

  There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

  4.1 · 63 votes · 8 reads

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• Feelings

  There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  4.1 · 61 votes · 119 reads

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• Society

  They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

  3.9 · 51 votes · 87 reads

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• Society

  They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  3.7 · 53 votes · 11 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

  3.4 · 36 votes · 81 reads

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• Time

  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.

  3.2 · 54 votes · 91 reads

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• Art and Culture

  This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

  3.4 · 62 votes · 83 reads

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• Time

  Those whom the gods love grow young.

  4.9 · 24 votes · 76 reads

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• Feelings

  Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

  3.6 · 61 votes · 197 reads

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• Virtues

  To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

  3.1 · 30 votes · 82 reads

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• Feelings

  To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

  3.6 · 7 votes · 17 reads

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• Various

  To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

  4.9 · 23 votes · 140 reads

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• Time

  To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

  4.4 · 62 votes · 63 reads

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• Virtues

  To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

  3.4 · 15 votes · 124 reads

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• Nature

  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  3.7 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• Society

  To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

  3.5 · 53 votes · 145 reads

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• Virtues

  To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

  4.3 · 64 votes · 21 reads

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• Defects

  Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  3.3 · 28 votes · 20 reads

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• Defects

  Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  4.8 · 62 votes · 141 reads

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• Virtues

  We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  5.0 · 17 votes · 137 reads

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• Various

  We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  4.5 · 44 votes · 58 reads

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• Nature

  We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  5.0 · 43 votes · 35 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

  4.8 · 31 votes · 178 reads

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• Defects

  Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.

  4.6 · 55 votes · 156 reads

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• Feelings

  When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her.

  4.3 · 43 votes · 56 reads

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• Society

  When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

  4.6 · 39 votes · 113 reads

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• Society

  When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.

  4.5 · 60 votes · 87 reads

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