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"We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago."
"Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope."
"George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar."
"I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
"Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it."
"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"
"Nothing worth learning can ever be taught"
"There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
"The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it."
"I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."
"When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it."
"Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him."
"Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
"If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)"
"Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams."
"The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married."
"He hadn’t a single redeeming vice."
"Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true."
"I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does."
"The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age."