Alain de Botton Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Witty Quotes

We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull. But what if such a perfect being should one day turn around and decide they will love us back? We can only be somewhat shocked-how can they be as wonderful as we had hoped when they have the bad taste to approve of someone like us?

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

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It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

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We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Science should be on tap, not on top.

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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

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I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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The English never draw a line without blurring it.

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