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    Émile Zola
    “Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
    ― Émile Zola
    tags: atheism, civilization, organized-religion, religion
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    Lord Byron
    “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
    ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)
    tags: bigotry, fools, freedom, life, reason, slavery
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    Lord Byron
    “If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.”
    ― George Gordon Byron
    tags: writing
    547 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.”
    ― Lord Byron
    tags: atheism, belief, christianity, humor, religious
    252 likes

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    Lord Byron
    “Adversity is the first path to truth.”
    ― Lord Byron
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    Lord Byron
    “What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
    ― George Gordon Byron
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: atheism, chess, god, language, life, religion, society
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    Marcel Duchamp
    “As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
    tags: language, misunderstanding, understanding
    197 likes

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    Marcel Duchamp
    “I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.”
    ― Marcel Duchamp
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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
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    Mark Twain
    “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
    ― Oscar Wilde (attributed to)
    tags: classic-insult
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: beauty, classic-insult, humor, ugly
    3578 likes

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    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: classic-insult, humor, intelligence, people, stupidity
    941 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
    921 likes

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    Oscar Wilde
    “He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: classic-insult
    760 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: classic-insult, simile
    412 likes

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    Benjamin Disraeli
    “A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

    That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
    ― Benjamin Disraeli
    277 likes

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    Billy Wilder
    “He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.”
    ― Billy Wilder
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    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    ― Moses Hadas
    tags: bad-reviews, books, classic-insult, irony, literary-criticism, time
    242 likes

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    Stephen Bishop
    “I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.”
    ― Stephen Bishop
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, While Rome Burns
    tags: classic-insult, harvard, humor, innuendo, naughty, yale
    171 likes

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    Dorothy Parker
    “She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: bad-reviews
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  • #27
    “He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.”
    ― Paul Keating
    tags: classic-insult
    83 likes

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    Sophocles
    “To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another!”
    ― Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
    tags: brief, classic-insult, communication, concise, humor, insult, word-choice, writing
    31 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “I cannot say your worships have delivered the matter well when I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables [...] our very priests must become mockers if they shall encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the wagging of your beards, and your beards deserve not so honorable a grave as to stuff a botcher's cushion or to be entombed in an ass's packsaddle [...] more of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians. I will be bold to take my leave with you.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
    tags: act-2, act-ii, classic-insult, conflict, conversation, dialogue, dinner, humor, insult, money, war
    4 likes



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