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Love12 quotes
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. — Oscar Wilde · 1895It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. — Oscar Wilde · 1891There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. — Oscar Wilde · 1890A pity beyond all telling
Is hid in the heart of love. — W.B. Yeats · 1893Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1928All 12 quotes →Politics11 quotes
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. — Edmund Burke · 1790Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke · 1774How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! — Oliver Goldsmith · 1765All 11 quotes →Political theory10 quotes
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke · 1775Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. — Edmund Burke · 1790To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind. — Edmund Burke · 1790Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke · 1774How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! — Oliver Goldsmith · 1765The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered. — Edmund Burke · 1775All 10 quotes →The human condition9 quotes
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. — Oscar Wilde · 1892One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour. — Oscar Wilde · 1880To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them. — Oscar Wilde · 1893It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. — Oscar Wilde · 1891How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! — Oliver Goldsmith · 1765All 9 quotes →Law7 quotes
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science. — Charles Macklin · 1759Laws, like houses, lean on one another. — Edmund Burke · 1760Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity, — the Law of Nature and of Nations. — Edmund Burke · 1794The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. — Edmund Burke · 1796Laws are like Cobwebs, which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift · 1711All 7 quotes →Men and women7 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. — Oscar Wilde · 1893Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. — Oscar Wilde · 1891All 7 quotes →Morality7 quotes
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke · 1790The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity, — the Law of Nature and of Nations. — Edmund Burke · 1794Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770All 7 quotes →Art6 quotes
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art. — Oscar Wilde · 1891No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde · 1891The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. — Oscar Wilde · 1891All art is collaboration. — John Millington Synge · 1907To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. — Samuel Beckett · 1930Freedom5 quotes
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke · 1784Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. — Edmund Burke · 1790Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed. — Edmund Burke · 1777The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. — Edmund Burke · 1777Life5 quotes
They lived und laughed ant loved end left. — James Joyce · 1939One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour. — Oscar Wilde · 1880To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett · 1953I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1910Women5 quotes
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903What a misfortune it is to be born a woman!... Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show us the narrow limits, the Gothic structure, the impenetrable barriers of our prison. — Maria Edgeworth · 1806Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Beauty4 quotes
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Margaret Wolfe Hungerford · 1878The curves of your lips rewrite history. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Democracy4 quotes
Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke · 1774Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Friendship4 quotes
Generosity is the essence of friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1888Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde · 1892Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1768Genius4 quotes
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. — Oscar Wilde · 1890A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift · 1711Beauty is a form of genius,—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell, we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Moral decline4 quotes
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke · 1777Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1764Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1770Religion4 quotes
Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. — Edmund Burke · 1792We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. — Jonathan Swift · 1711It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve. — James Joyce · 1915There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1898Revolution4 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903Where 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. — Roger Casement · 1917Adversity3 quotes
Difficulties are just things to overcome after all. — Ernest Shackleton · 1908Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. — Josephine Hart · 1991Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Oliver Goldsmith · 1761Authenticity3 quotes
The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. — Oscar Wilde · 1891I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning. — James Joyce · 1915When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. — James Joyce · 1915Custom and convention3 quotes
Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke · 1757The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. — Edmund Burke · 1796Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and color to our lives. — Edmund Burke · 1796Death3 quotes
Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all. — W.B. Yeats · 1933I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost? — W.B. Yeats · 1910I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.” — W.B. Yeats · 1903French Revolution3 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790It is said, that twenty-four millions ought to prevail over two hundred thousand. True, if the constitution of a kingdom be a problem of arithmetic. — Edmund Burke · 1790Gender relations3 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw · 1913Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Happiness3 quotes
He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life. — James Joyce · 1915A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw · 1894History3 quotes
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke · 1790History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. — James Joyce · 1922The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Human nature3 quotes
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy, to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt. — Edmund Burke · 1770To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind. — Edmund Burke · 1770Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Learning from mistakes3 quotes
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. — James Joyce · 1922Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name we gave to our mistakes. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — Edmund Burke · 1796Living life to the fullest3 quotes
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. — George Bernard Shaw · 1903To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde · 1891Realize your youth while you have it... Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. — Oscar Wilde · 1890Marriage3 quotes
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. — Oscar Wilde · 1890There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only. — Oscar Wilde · 1895When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. — George Bernard Shaw · 1908