Importance Of Being Earnest Cecily Quotes & Sayings

My college friends thought I was stupid, crazy, and throwing away a bright future." Jennifer — Angela Nicoara

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. — Alfred Mercier

God has been pleased to give many of these appearances of Himself. — D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment. — Eckhart Tolle

Whatever mistakes her son might make in life, Cindy was sure God would have mercy on him. The church, she feared, might not. — Justin Lee

Still it tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow again writhes in this petty pace from day to day until the last syllable of the recorded time — William Shakespeare

We are not always shaped by our parents, Cas. We're shaped by our choices. — Sarah Dalton

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing. — Joshua Bell

I am programmed at fifty to perform childishly - to insult "The Star-Spangled Banner," to scrawl pictures of a Nazi flag and an asshole and a lot of other things with a felt-tipped pen. To give an idea of the maturity of my illustrations for this book, here is my picture of an asshole: — Kurt Vonnegut

Take away someone's fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty ... and you take away their compassion. Take away someone's aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation. — Veronica Roth

A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends. At some table a document is signed by some persons whom none of us knows, and then for years together that very crime on which formerly the world's condemnation and severest penalty fall, becomes our highest aim. But who can draw such a distinction when he looks at these quiet men with their childlike faces and apostles' beards. Any noncommissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, than they are to us. And yet we would shoot at them again and they at us if they were free. — Erich Maria Remarque

Another one says she has asnap-off crotch. What do you think she means by that? I'm a little worried,though, about all these outbreaks of lifestyle diseases. I carry a reinforced ribbed condom at all times. One size fits all. But I have a feeling it's not much protection against the intelligence and adaptability of the modern virus. — Don DeLillo

Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around. — Barbara Delinsky

I am afraid it is quite clear, Cecily, that neither of us is engaged to be married to any one. — Oscar Wilde

If we are caught by the obstacle of knowledge, even if truth comes knocking at our door, we will refuse to let it in. — Thich Nhat Hanh