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Lord Illingworth:
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby:
It ends with Revelations.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.
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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
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Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
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Is this the end of all that primal force Which, in its changes being still the same, From eyeless Chaos cleft its upward course, Through ravenous seas and whirling rocks and flame, Till the suns met in heaven and began Their cycles, and the morning stars sang, and the Word was Man!
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.
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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.
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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it.
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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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Born:
October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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