We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944
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There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will prevent me from being happy.
—Jean Anouilh, 1934The waters are nature’s storehouse, in which she locks up her wonders.
—Izaak Walton, 1653Everyone knows about everybody in Hollywood—who sleeps with whom, who doesn’t sleep, who does it standing on his head or in the dentist’s chair.
—Rock Hudson, 1982The tune I remember, could I but keep the words.
—Virgil, 38 BCHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
—Francis Bacon, 1625In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
—V.S. Pritchett, 1968Who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings, loses all fear.
—The Upanishads, c. 800 BCThe law is far, the fist is near.
—Korean proverbAll women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
—Oscar Wilde, 1895Everything that has wings is beyond the reach of the law.
—Joseph Joubert, 1791The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.
—Lord Byron, 1821