Windemere Quotes & Sayings

Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. When there is wanting in the mind, that moment feels incomplete. Wanting is seeing elsewhere. Completeness is being right here. — Stephen Levine

Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD. — Oscar Wilde

That people can maintain an unshakable faith in any proposition, however absurd, when they are sustained by a community of like-minded believers. — Daniel Kahneman

I am what I it. It is what is is. — Tom Robbins

Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime. — Brian K. Vaughan

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure. — Mark Twain

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose.
DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. — Oscar Wilde

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model. — Cindy Crawford

Sales are proof that somebody is reading. — Jessica Hernandez

They built three new houses on their craggy private island and gave them each a name: Windemere for Penny, Red Gate for Carrie, and Cuddledown for Bess. — E. Lockhart

Easter. The only time it's okay to put all of your eggs in one basket! — Unknown

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us. — Gerhard Richter

I didn't start out to be a movie star. I started out to be an actor. — Kirk Douglas

Thus they went along, Punch and Judy, attracting each other and repelling, as love must do if it is not to end up as calendar art or a pop tune. — Julio Cortazar

I think tomorrow I'll burn myself on the stove so people will feel sorry for me. — Sam Pink

Why the Devil survived for so long? Is it because he is the Devil or is it because he is much smarter than the oldest guy around? Go figure. — Boris Zubry

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen. — Ben Jonson