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Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act V, Scene I, spoken by DogberryIn context
- Truth & Lies
Sell when you can; you are not for all markets.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act III, Scene V, spoken by RosalindIn context
- Advice
- Clever Jabs
Your “if” is the only peacemaker; much virtue in “if.”
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act V, Scene IV, spoken by TouchstoneIn context
- Talking
Really, if the lower orders don’t set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Clever Jabs
Divorces are made in Heaven
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Marriage
Ah! that must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Family
Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Music
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), First Act, spoken by AlgernonIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Family
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by Lady BracknellIn context
- Clever Jabs
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by GwendolenIn context
I’ve now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Third Act, spoken by JackIn context
- Truth & Lies
Walk! Not bloody likely.
I am going in a taxi.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act III, spoken by LizaIn context
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book VIIIn context
- Clever Jabs
- Science
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters and to wrest the laws, and, therefore, they think it is much better that every man should plead his own cause
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book II (3 of 4)In context
- Clever Jabs
- Laws