All Quotes
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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.Cicero
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1882
The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.Martin Mull
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.Oscar Levant
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.Frank Lloyd Wright
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.Oscar Wilde
The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.Heinrich Heine
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.Laurence J. Peter, paraphrasing Sir Walter Scott
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891