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«A woman occasionally is quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
quite a, serviceable
«Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Irony,
Wit
| Keywords:
For, is a, quotation, serviceable, substitute, substituted, substituting, wit
«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assassins, blade, celebrate, deadly, flight, hilt, hinted, hinting, hints, inutile, irresistible, Joel, keen, mail, nurse, overthrow, rumor, serviceable, shield, slay, slender, spare, The Assassin, The Assassins, the Terror, unseen, valor, wield, wielded, wields, wretch, wretches
«If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?»
«If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Social service
| Keywords:
half-hour, serviceable
«Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing»
«Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
allusion, manageable, moderate, possessors, serviceable, stray
«Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.»
«Be good, be serviceable; Be useful, be kind and Be God-fearing.»
«She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Gifts,
Quotations,
Wit
| Keywords:
quotation, serviceable
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