Nuala O'Faolain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We are not by nature cruel.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
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I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
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I'm obsessed with broccoli, carrots, celery, string beans, snap peas, black kale, brussels sprouts, cabbage - I could go on! They used to call me 'rabbit' when I was a kid. I hate mushrooms, though. I apologize to fungi lovers, but this way, there's more for you!
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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
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From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
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Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind.
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Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.
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Men who are lovers of wisdom [i.e., philosophers] must be inquirers into many things.
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Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
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Where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.
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I hope to shine through my transparency and just let people know that we are all the same. I want children to look at things different like "You're shining too! You just shine in a different way."
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My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.
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When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played a symphony that wasn't permitted, and the Germans came up on stage and broke every finger on her hands. I grew up with stories of Nazis breaking the fingers of Jews.
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Lovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them.
