"The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility."

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Source : Joe Orton (1998). “The Visitors: Fred and Madge : Two Plays”, p.13, Grove Press

Joe Orton

#Oscars Quotes #Welfare Quotes #Wilde Quotes

“To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.”

Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion.”
“Everything you need God already is.”
“It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.”
“So I took it as a very positive sign that the club came to me rather than the other way round.”

Source : "Dennis Bergkamp" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.
“See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest.”
“Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.”

Source : 'The Beaux' Stratagem' (1707) act 1, sc. 1
“Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.”

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