#era

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty #literature #philosophy #art

The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#appearance #exaggerate #hamlet #his #king

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#contrary #exact #generally #often #truth

Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't. ↗

— Joe Biden

#achilles heel #civil #civil liberties #heel #liberals

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation. ↗

— Joe Biden

#balance of power #crisis #deal #economic #economic future

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#bestow #common #common sense #destitute #favors

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conspicuously #miserable

I also believe that the Supreme Court should be the final arbiter of all federal questions. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#arbiter #believe #court #federal #final

The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#buster #cameo #charlie #cos #course

Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#experience