Favourite Quotes and Quotations

[Anni M]

Art and Life
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
(Intentions)
All art is quite useless.
(The Portrait of Dorian Gray)
Behind one's back
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Belief
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
Books
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
(The Picture of Dorian Gray)
British
To many, no doubt, he will seem blatent and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
(Pall Mall Gazette)
Business
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)
Conversation
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
(An Ideal Husband)
Cricket
I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
Debt
One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
(A Woman of No Importance)

Oscar Wilde

[blunthead]

Beauty vol 1...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe

Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin

Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Haunted]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
~ John F. Kennedy

[Haunted]

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~ Williams Jenning Bryan

[Haunted]

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
~ Alexander Pope

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Beauty vol 2...

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells

Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy

Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson

Beauty is only skin deep.
Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet

Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Alicia Machado

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia

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BILL PARCELLS quotes Vol. 1

I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.

Every coach comes to a point and looks at a veteran player ... Where is he in this world? Where are we going to be six months from now? Where will we be one year from now? If the veteran player is definitely superior and gives you a better chance to win, that's when the real conflict comes. If you think a month from now or six weeks from now or eight weeks from now this young player is going to be better than the veteran, then you have to bite the bullet.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

Sometimes when everybody's feeding you the cheese it's hard not to eat it.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

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BILL PARCELLS quotes Vol. 2

When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.

Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow . . . I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

[Haunted]

The trick is growing up without growing old.
~ Casey Stengel

[Haunted]

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
~ Kahlil Gibran