"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."

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"In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice."

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"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Dying, Gain

"Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Dying, Merit

"It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar."

Jerry Della Femina, American Businessman

Dying, Hollywood

"And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying."

Christina Rossetti, British Poet

Dying,

"You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor."

Alan Lomax, American Writer

Dying,

"I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy."

Holly Valance, Australian Musician

Dying,

"A closed mind is a dying mind."

Edna Ferber, American Novelist

Dying, Mind

"Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!"

Raymond Smullyan, American Mathematician

Dying,

"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."

David Cronenberg, Canadian Director

Dying, Existence

"The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it."

Berkeley Breathed, American Cartoonist

Dying, Want, Berke Breathed

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"Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son."

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"Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything."

Manners

"My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally."

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"There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief."

Trust

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."

Language

"Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression."

Crime

"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."

Books

"We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school."

Education

"Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'."

Nation