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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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

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

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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

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

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You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

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Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember

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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

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There are no facts, only interpretations.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.

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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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Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

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She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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