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Quotations by Subject: Love (162 quotes)

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, 1941, Harrow School
Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest
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You must be the change you want to see in the world.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.: Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.

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