While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your...

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your...

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't...

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't...

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and...

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may...

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance...

You need to learn to be happy by nature, because you'll seldom have the chance...