No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.


William S. Gilbert

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Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
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Shine brightly, so you can help those who have not found their path a way through the darkness.
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Though "Bother it" I may Occasionally say, I never never use a big, big, D.
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Take a pair of sparkling eyes.
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I'm a greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery, / Foot-in-the-grave young man!
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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Hearts just as pure and fair / May beat in Belgrave Square / As in the lowly air / Of Seven Dials.
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He uses language that would make your hair curl.
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Down went the owners -- greedy men whom hope of gain allured: oh, dry the starting tear, for they we...
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But they couldn't chat together - they had not been introduced.
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I was a pale young curate then.
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He led his regiment from behind - / He found it less exciting.
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We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
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The mildest curate going.
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Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
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Matrimonial devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion.
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And I always voted at my party's call, / And I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
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Take my counsel, happy man; / Act upon it, if you can!
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I'm called Little Buttercup - dear Little Buttercup, / Though I could never tell why.
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The constitutional guardian I, / Of pretty young Wards in Chancery.
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Something lingering with boiling oil in it . . . something humorous but lingering--with either boil...
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My object all sublime I shall achieve in time-- To let the punishment fit the crime.
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Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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Things are seldom what they seem.
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On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
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Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.
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And I am right, And you are right, Modified rapture!
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
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The House of Peers, throughout the war, / Did nothing in particular, / And did it very well.
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I...
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When I first put this uniform on.
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A source of innocent merriment.
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She may very well pass for forty-three / In the dusk with a light behind her!
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It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.
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So I fell in love with a rich attorney's / Elderly ugly daughter.
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A pleasant occupation for / A rather susceptible Chancellor!
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Life is a joke that's just begun.
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Dukes were three a penny.
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Three little maids who, all unwary, / Come from a ladies' seminary.
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Man is nature's sole mistake.
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A wandering minstrel I - / A thing of shreds and patches.
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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved.
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You know a real friend?
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A functioning police state needs no police.
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Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
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An addict never stops growing. Stupider.
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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
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Language is a virus from outer space.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
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The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
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Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller.
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I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
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Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
If a weaker baboon be attacked by a stronger baboon the weaker baboon will either (a) present his hr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implemen...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.
WILLIAM S. PALEY
Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom... Make no mistake, all intellectua...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he se...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The Pusher always gets it all back.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ''I want to see the manager.''
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Whenever anyone reads his words the writer is there. He lives in his readers.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rise...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
If you rap your knuckles against a window jamb or door, if you brush your leg against a bed or desk,...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple st...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
While we are not and cannot become the world's policeman, neither can we become a prisoner of world ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Kindness, Courtesy, Courage, and a Commitment to Academic Excellence" "But if everything goes wrong,...
WILLIAM S. HUNTER
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of so...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very u...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
When I say madness I mean what I see in a nut house: beat, resigned, dim, diffuse, nowhere people. N...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
I'm running out of everything now. Out of veins, out of money.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different an...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
This memorial is more than a remembrance, it's also a reminder that women in the military's service ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties ...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
We will not win the war on terror through military action. The sharing of information and intelligen...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
(1) Never give anything away for nothing. (2) Never give more than you have to give (always catch th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Never give succor to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
My experience as an addict was very useful to me as writer: the whole syndrome of addiction and with...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he us...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The threat of terrorism taking place on American soil is real, with chemical, biological, indeed, as...
WILLIAM S. COHEN
The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
A Nazi initiation into the upper reaches of the SS was to gouge out the eye of a pet cat after feedi...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want...
WILLIAM S. WILSON
When you stop growing you start dying.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
To put it country simple. Earth has a lot of things other folks might want, like the whole planet. A...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS