Quotes

Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. ~ Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens "Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I prefer women with a past. They're always so demmed amusing to talk to." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "I can resist everything except temptation." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde "Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. ~ Zuleika Dobson by Sir Max Beerbohm