Chirayu's favorite quotes

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

13 people liked it

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: sex

133 people liked it

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: author, book, humorist, poet, wit

493 people liked it

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
— Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

2,724 people liked it

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, satan

1,107 people liked it

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, quotation, wit

555 people liked it

"Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

59 people liked it

"She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
— Oscar Wilde

51 people liked it

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
— Ambrose Bierce

tags: books, criticism, humor, wit

324 people liked it

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: believe, liar, lie, punishment

53 people liked it

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: activism, progress, reasonable, unreasonable

139 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy

5,803 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling

13,887 people liked it

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

342 people liked it

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own..." "
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

14 people liked it

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