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Fun Quotes - Page 68

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

"Sir Arthur Nicolson, Bart., First Lord Carnock: A Study in the Old Diplomacy". Book by Harold Nicolson, p. 214, 1930.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

"Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.11, Oxford University Press on Demand

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin