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 Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 5:14 am
Well, I can't write for beans, but I am one of those people who writes down quotes from books that I read. I love to share the quotes that I pick out too. So....maybe we can get some quotes in here so that the people who cannot write, but enjoy reading won't feel left out. xp Feel free to add some quotes that you come across in your reading.
All right. These were taken from Oscar Wilde's Remarkable Rocket. I find Oscar Wilde extremely quotable, so I take a lot of things from him.
"But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different."
"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions."
"I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do."
"I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?"
"Indeed, I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."
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Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:51 am
LorienLlewellyn "Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions." so true....sooooo true. 3nodding (hmm...that'd be good to use in a sociology class ^^) LorienLlewellyn "I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" oh man....i get the feeling this man would be SOOO entertaining in person xd people with nutty words make me giggle smile
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:20 am
LorienLlewellyn
"I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
That one is definiely true for me. In search for new Knowledge
Old Widom may be dropped
Like crumbs in the forest of Fact
One must retrace those steps
Lest the old Wisdom die away...
-Myself
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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:57 pm
These beauties are from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens:
"Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination, which has a long memory and will thrive for a considerable time on very slight and sparing food."
"Is selfishness a necessary ingredient in the composition of that passion called love, or does it deserve all the fine things which poets, in the exercise of their undoubted vocation, have said of it?"
"Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues- faith and hope."
"There are some men, who living with the one object of enriching themselves, no matter by what means, and being perfectly conscious of the baseness and rascality of the means which they will use every day towards this end, affect nevertheless- even to themselves- a high tone of moral rectitude, and shake their heads and sigh over the depravity of the world."
"Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth, or rather- for walking implies, at least, an erect position and the bearing of a man- that ever crawled and crept through life by its dirtiest and narrowest ways, will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with Heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favor."
"He knew himself well, and choosing to imagine that all mankind were cast from the same mould, hated them; for, though no man hates himself, the coldest amoung us having too much self-love for that, yet most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples."
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