To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
(imp. & p. p.) of Paraphrase
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.
You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.
Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.
Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.
So many things to see, people to do.
It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.
All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.
There is no God and we are his prophets.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an heir.
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
Do you hate people?I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.