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“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Мъжете винаги искат да бъдат първата любов на жените. Това е тяхната тромава суетност. Жените притежават по-тънък инстинкт за нещата - харесва им да бъдат последния романс на мъжа."От”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“До гуша ми дойде от влюбени жени. Жените, които те мразят са много по-интересни!”
― Oscar Wilde

“A burnt child loves the fire.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Strong reasons make strong actions.”
― William Shakespeare

“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never on any occasion said a word to the public which showed a belief in the Christian religion and they thought they should so pen their address as to force him at length to declare publicly whether he was a Christian or not. They did so. However [Dr. Rush] observed the old fox was too cunning for them. He answered every article of their address particularly except that, which he passed over without notice... I know that Gouverneur Morris, who pretended to be in his secrets & believed himself to be so, has often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system than he himself did.

{The Anas, February 1, 1800, written shortly after the death of first US president George Washington}”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Complete Anas of Thomas Jefferson

“Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.”
― Toba Beta

“I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.”
― Johnny Cash

“It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”
― Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life cheats us with shadows.
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us with bitterness
and disappointment in its train.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Bad artists always admire each others work.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. ”
― Charles Bukowski

“Как ще повярват невярващите какви чудеса може да стори вярата?
Те забравят, че душата на човека става всемогъща, когато бъде овладяна от една велика идея. Обхваща те страх, когато след горчив опит разбереш, че вътре в нас съществува една сила, която може да надвиши силите на човека; обхваща те страх, защото от онзи миг, в който разбереш, че тази сила съществува, вече не можеш да намериш оправдание за дребнавите си или малодушни постъпки, за пропиления си живот, за който хвърляш вината на другите; знаеш вече, че ти, не съдбата, не орисията, нито хората около теб, ти единствен носиш цялата отговорност, каквото и да правиш, какъвто и да станеш.
И тогава се срамуваш да се смееш, срамуваш се да се присмиваш, ако някоя пламенна душа се стреми към невъзможното.
И ти съзнаваш вече съвсем ясно, че ценността на човека се състои в това: да търси и да знае, че търси невъзможното; и да бъде убеден, че ще го постигне, защото знае, че ако не прояви малодушие, ако не послуша това, което му нашепва разумът, а стиска зъби и продължава да преследва невъзможното убедено, упорито, тогава става чудото, което безкрилият ум никога не би могъл да проумее: невъзможното става възможно.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems