Arthur Wing Pinero famous quotes

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There are two sorts of affection - the love of a woman you respect, and the love for the woman you love.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Respect #Two #Affection
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Positive #Deep Love #Age
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Believe #Past #I Believe
Where there's tea, there's hope.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Tea
While there is tea, there is hope.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Tea #There Is Hope
I love fruit, when it is expensive.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Fruit #Culinary
A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Imagination
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Legacy #Biographies #Trouble
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
-- Arthur Wing Pinero

#Heart #Men #Age

In this respect, the history of science, like the history of all civilization, has gone through cycles.
Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.
On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

Arthur Wing Pinero famous quotes

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