Do not ask me to be kind; just ask me to act as though I were.
—Jules Renard, 1898
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The oldest voice in the world is the wind.
—Donald Culross Peattie, 1950Charity is murder and you know it.
—Dorothy Parker, 1956Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.
—Cicero, c. 45 BCTo think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
—William Hazlitt, 1823Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944Put national causes first and personal grudges last.
—Sima Qian, c. 91 BCOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
—E.B. White, 1977If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.
—Raymond Chandler, 1945A maid that laughs is half taken.
—John Ray, 1670Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
—Pablo Neruda, 1924I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say—your professional poets, I mean—there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
—Duke of Wellington, c. 1810What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?
—Thomas More, 1516