"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."

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"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull."

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"You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave."

Christine Keeler, English Model

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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Thomas Browne, British Scientist

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"I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave."

Wallis Simpson, American Royalty

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"To say what you feel is to dig your own grave."

Sinead O'Connor, Irish Musician

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"I'll perform all the way to the grave."

Patti LaBelle, American Musician

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"He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him."

Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British Actor

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"I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done."

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"I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist."

Berkeley Breathed, American Cartoonist

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"He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction, he had on the contrary an engaging modesty."

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"The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them."

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"Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men."

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"I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency."

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"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."

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"Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment."

Love

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Ability

"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

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"How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary connection made such preposterous claims. Why should that make any difference to him in his feelings towards the child?"

Feminism

"My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror."

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