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“It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and-if he is lucky enough-know the love of an honest woman.”
Robert Graves quotes
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“I knew once a very covetous, sordid fellow [perhaps William Lowndes], who used to say, `Take care of the pence, for the pounds will take care of themselves.'”
Lord Chesterfield quotes (British Statesman, Diplomat and Wit, 1694-1773)

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“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!”
Luigi Pirandello quotes (Italian short-story Playwright, Writer, Dramatist and Novelist, who became famous as an innovator in modern drama with his creation of the “theater within the theater” in the 1920s, 1867-1936)

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“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think”
Virginia Woolf quotes (English Modernist Writer. She is best known for her feminist essay "A Room of One's Own" and the novel "Mrs. Dalloway". Committed suicide at age 59. 1882-1941)
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“Let us clear any romantic notion of daredeviltry from our minds. It is nothing less than a sordid crime of violence inspired by vast greed.”
Edmund Davies quotes

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“Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends”
Charles Sprague quotes
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“I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities.I failed history.”
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“I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast!”
George Canning quotes (British Statesman and Prime Minister (1827), 1770-1827)

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