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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.


Moliere

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MOLIèRE We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Don't belive what others tell you. You belive in what you belive; there is nothing better.
LYNDA HERNANDEZ The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.
KEANU REEVES Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their...
EILEEN CADDY The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.
JENNIFER NIVEN If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art...
ANSARI No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty ...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. - Conceits and Caprices.
J. PETIT-SENN You can say that you dont care what anyone thinks about you, but in the end, its all that really mat...
TIFFANY GARLAND Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us f...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON I have never been contained except I made the prison.
MARY EVANS The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES The thing is, there are good days and bad days. I feel almost guilty saying they aren't all bad.
JENNIFER NIVEN You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.
JENNIFER NEVIN If that blue could stay for ever; if that hole could remain for ever." There was nothing to make him...
JENNIFER NIVEN I walk through the black Indiana night, under a ceiling of stars, and think about the phrase "elegan...
JENNIFER NIVEN I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON The history of mankind is a history of war.
MIKE LOVE Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to everybody.
JENNIFER NIVEN Lovely is a lovely word that should be used more often.
JENNIFER NIVEN If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.
JENNIFER NIVEN I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, toni...
MADELINE MILLER Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
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PAULO COELHO Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
JENNIFER NIVEN The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count. Every...
JENNIFER NIVEN True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice on the matter.
JOHN GREEN She was so mean that she even killed her own name, and now people just pointed to her.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Break hearts, not promises.
JOHN GREEN Our trade opens to all the world.
EZRA STILES The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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ZARA PHILLIPS

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
MOLIERE I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores
MOLIERE It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
MOLIERE To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed,...
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.
MOLIERE A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
MOLIERE I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.
MOLIERE I live on good soup, not on fine words.
MOLIERE It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion...
MOLIERE People don't mind being mean; but they never want to be ridiculous.
MOLIERE Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
MOLIERE I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
MOLIERE The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
MOLIERE Oh, I may be devout, but I am human all the same.
MOLIERE I have the knack of easing scruples.
MOLIERE The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
MOLIERE The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and le...
MOLIERE There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
MOLIERE Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.
MOLIERE A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly beha...
MOLIERE We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
MOLIERE Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then f...
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to h...
MOLIERE Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety
MOLIERE Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.
MOLIERE Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world ...
MOLIERE One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
MOLIERE Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wicked though...
MOLIERE As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt...
MOLIERE Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
MOLIERE Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.
MOLIERE Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in...
MOLIERE We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
MOLIERE He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
MOLIERE If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues ...
MOLIERE Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
MOLIERE Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion.
MOLIERE And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyon...
MOLIERE Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it
MOLIERE The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
MOLIERE That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.
MOLIERE People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise
MOLIERE Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.
MOLIERE People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
MOLIERE True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.
MOLIERE The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.
MOLIERE Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
MOLIERE I will maintain it before the whole world.
MOLIERE Ah that I- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This sui...
MOLIERE Birth is nothing where virtue is not
MOLIERE Ah! Valere, all men say the same thing to women; all are alike in their words; their actions only sh...
MOLIERE What the devil did he want in that galley?
MOLIERE You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
MOLIERE All the power is with the sex that wears the beard
MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots.
MOLIERE It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.
MOLIERE The mind has great influence over the body, and maladies often have their origin there.
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE I would like to be like my father and all the rest of my ancestors who never married
MOLIERE I want to be understood; to be quite frank, the friend of the human race is not in the least my role...
MOLIERE Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain
MOLIERE I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others
MOLIERE How easy love makes fools of us.
MOLIERE He's a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
MOLIERE Long is the road from conception to completion.
MOLIERE Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble
MOLIERE Love is often the fruit of marriage.
MOLIERE Assassination's the fastest way.
MOLIERE My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
MOLIERE Virtue in this world should be malleable.
MOLIERE I am addressing myself - I am addressing myself to my cap.
MOLIERE I assure you that a learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool
MOLIERE Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.
MOLIERE Books and marriage go ill together.
MOLIERE Of course heaven forbids certain pleasures, but one finds means of compromise.
MOLIERE Man is, I confess, a wicked creature.
MOLIERE There's nothing like tobacco; it is the passion of all decent men-a man who lives without tobacco do...
MOLIERE Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
MOLIERE He must have killed a lot of men to have made so much money.
MOLIERE We die only once, and for such a long time.
MOLIERE Things only have the value that we give them
MOLIERE Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
MOLIERE The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love sho...
MOLIERE According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat
MOLIERE It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.
MOLIERE To live without loving is not really to live
MOLIERE It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
MOLIERE There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MOLIERE One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others
MOLIERE It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
MOLIERE There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.
MOLIERE There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives witho...
MOLIERE Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood.
MOLIERE It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found.
MOLIERE If you make yourself understood, you're always speaking well.
MOLIERE A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
MOLIERE One should eat to live, not live to eat.
MOLIERE The envious will die, but envy never. [Fr., Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The genuine Amphitryon is the Amphitryon with whom we dine. [Fr., Le veritable Amphitryon Est ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The republic of letters. [Fr., La republique des lettres.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws. [Fr...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE It is Hebrew to me. [Fr., C'est de l'hebreu pour moi.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The smallest errors are always the best. [Fr., Les plus courtes erreurs sont toujours les meilleur...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE There are fagots and fagots. [Fr., Il y a fagots et fagots.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE To pull the chestnuts from the fire with the cat's paw.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so. [Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Too great haste leads us to error. [Fr., Le trop de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE One is easily fooled by that which one loves. [Fr., On est aisement dupe par ce qu'on aime.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding suc...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I recover my property wherever I find it. [Fr., Je reprends mon bien ou je le trouve.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE The road is long fro the project to its completion. [Fr., Et le chemin est long du projet a la cho...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly. [Fr., La parfaite ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book. [Fr., Une louange en ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie ...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE