Quotes · Skopia

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Place·Dublin✕clear

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

1831

★ 1.0

Play · Drama (play)

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 1.0

The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

1885

★ 1.1

What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

1888

★ 1.1

Play · Drama (play)

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 1.1

The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.

George Bernard Shaw

1949

★ 1.1

It is the Folly of too many, to mistake the Eccho of a London Coffee-house for the Voice of the Kingdom.

1711

★ 1.2

Essay · Satire

The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

1711

★ 1.2

Essay · Satire

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

1727

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

The people are the masters.

Speech in House of Commons, February 11, 1780 · 1780

★ 1.2

Novel · Magazine

The mind of the thoroughly well informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.2

Essay · Magazine · Political literature

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.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 1.2

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

1891

★ 1.2

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

1898

★ 1.2

Epigrams · Journal

One should always be a little improbable.

1894

★ 1.3

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People · 1895

★ 1.3

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

1899

★ 1.3

Novel · Magazine

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890

★ 1.3

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 1.3

Courtroom speech · Speech

Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

1917

★ 1.7

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