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"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: life
898 people liked it

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor
1,043 people liked it

"Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
800 people liked it

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."
— Lemony Snicket

371 people liked it

"Well-read people are less likely to be criminals."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: humor, reading
338 people liked it

"If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: humor, talking, writers
378 people liked it

"It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches."
— Lemony Snicket

tags: ice-cream-sandwhiches, leaving-home
270 people liked it

"In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: job-interviews
72 people liked it

"If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "WEll this isn't to bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed" but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm,!""
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

74 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: life
4,256 people liked it

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money
1,223 people liked it

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion
1,324 people liked it

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: identity, opinions
1,068 people liked it

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: books, morality, reading
954 people liked it

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
765 people liked it

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: dreaming, dreams, imagination
553 people liked it

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

tags: experience, mistakes, wisdom
532 people liked it

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: truth
477 people liked it

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: classic-insult
241 people liked it

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: good, shit
107 people liked it

"The world is a stage and the play is badly cast."
— Oscar Wilde

118 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)

66 people liked it

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
— Oscar Wilde

68 people liked it

"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: fork, oyster, wit
53 people liked it

"It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it."
— Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

37 people liked it

"The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure"
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
39 people liked it

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
— Oscar Wilde

21 people liked it

"It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"
— Oscar Wilde

13 people liked it

"The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving."
— Oscar Wilde (De Profundis)

tags: melancholy
15 people liked it

"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
— Oscar Wilde

9 people liked it

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

tags: inspirational, women
190 people liked it

"In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)

46 people liked it

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

58 people liked it

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see things that are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

14 people liked it

"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise)

36 people liked it

"I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night)

16 people liked it

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
— Jack Kerouac

180 people liked it

"Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream"
— Jack Kerouac

130 people liked it

"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
— Jack Kerouac (On the Road)

tags: life
79 people liked it

"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
— Jack Kerouac

tags: poetry
35 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Jack Kerouac

tags: change, different, madness, misfits, nonconformity, progressive, rebels, troublemakers
164 people liked it

"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages."
— William Shakespeare

tags: human-condition
688 people liked it

"When he shall die, take him and cut him out into little stars and he shall make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun."
— William Shakespeare

156 people liked it

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt thou the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

tags: love
189 people liked it

"I would challenge to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!"
— William Shakespeare

180 people liked it

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

75 people liked it

"The object of Art is to give life a shape."
— William Shakespeare

76 people liked it

"Exit, pursued by a bear."
— William Shakespeare

24 people liked it

"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell."
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

tags: death, water
20 people liked it

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