“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”
Source: A Woman of No Importance
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.”
Not Browning, but a misquotation from Pearl Buck's China, Past and Present: "Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked".
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Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.”
China, Past and Present (1972) Ch. 6
“… religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.”
Source: Breathing Underwater: Spirituality and the 12 Steps
"Small Kicks in Superland" (p.56)
So This Is Depravity (1980)
“They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.”
2005, Interview with New Orleans radio station WWL (2005)
Comme on craint peu de choquer la vanité, on arrive fort vite en Italie au ton de l'intimité, et à dire des choses personnelles.
Source: La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), Ch. 6