Oxymoron Quotes – Page 3

A friend of mine, contemplating the English department: “There are plenty of vacancies, but they’re all filled.”

Author: Christopher Ricks

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought, “What the hell good would that do?”

Author: Ronnie Shakes

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then nine times out of ten it will.

Author: Paul Harvey

I love mankind — it’s people I can’t stand.

Author: Charles M. Schulz

The ever-alert, the conscientiously wakeful — how many fine things they fail to see.

Author: Norman Douglas

The tragedy is not that love doesn’t last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Author: Shirley Hazzard

A woman is more responsive to a man’s forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Author: Jules Janin

The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.

Author: Margo Kaufman

Personally I think if a woman hasn’t met the right man by the time she’s twenty-four, she may be lucky.

Author: Deborah Kerr

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman’s greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn’t want her.

Author: Helen Rowland

One of the advantages of living alone is that you don’t have to wake up in the arms of a loved one.

Author: Anna Marion Smith

Lovers’ quarrels are the renewal of love.

Author: Terence (Second Century B.C.)

The best thing about being attracted to unavailable men is that they’re always available.

Author: Meg Tilley

I like men to behave like men — strong and childish.

Author: Francoise Sagan

If I had had a pistol I would have shot him — either that or fallen at his feet. There is no middle way when one loves.

Author: Lady Laura Troubridge

To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn’t.

Author: Pierre De Beaumarchais

A bad woman always has something she regards as a curse — a real bit of goodness hidden away somewhere.

Author: Lady Laura Troubridge

The physical union of the sexes only intensifies man’s sense of solitude.

Author: Nicolas Berdyaev

There is . . . no woman so naked as one you can see to be naked under her clothes.

Author: Michael Frayn

Such ever was love’s way; to rise, it stoops.

Author: Robert Browning

There are two things I have always loved madly . . . women and celibacy.

Author: Nicolas De Chamfort

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can’t get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.

Author: Yul Brynner

I had to give up masochism — I was enjoying it too much.

Author: Mel Calman

Of course, it’s possible to love a human being — if you don’t know them too well.

Author: Charles Bukowski

You have to be very fond of men to love them. Otherwise they’re simply unbearable.

Author: Marguerite Duras

We spend our time envying people who we wouldn’t like to be.

Author: Jean Rostand

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man’s extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to destroy him.

Author: Anthony Storr

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not speculate: when he can’t afford it and when he can.

Author: Mark Twain

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don’t understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Author: Jane Wagner

What a man enjoys about a woman’s clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

Author: Brendan Behan

What a recreation it is to be in love! It sets the heart aching so delicately, there’s no taking a wink of sleep for the pleasure of the pain.

Author: George Colman The Younger

Life is easier than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Author: Kathleen Norris

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. And more romantic. And also more annoyed when he talks with his mouth full. And you also resent it more when he interrupts you. And you also respect him less when he shows any weakness. And furthermore, when you ask him to pick you up at the airport and he tells you he can’t do it because he’s busy, it’s only when you love him that you hate him.

Author: Judith Viorst

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.

Author: Shana Alexander

I have no-fail chemistry. A guy turns me on, he’s the wrong one for me.

Author: Linda Barnes

The cannon thunders . . . limbs fly in all directions . . . one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice . . . it’s Humanity in search of happiness.

Author: Charles Baudelaire

Now what I love in women is, they won’t Or can’t do otherwise than lie, but do it So well, the very truth seems false.

Author: Lord Byron

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the truth without lying.

Author: Josh Billings

A mighty pain to love it is, And ’tis a pain that pain to miss.

Author: Abraham Cowley

It’s usually the most wounded among us who inflict pain on others.

Author: Patti Davis

Th’ fav’rite pastime iv civilized man is croolty to other civilized man.

Author: Finley Peter Dunne

Success has ruin’d many a man.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself by saying, “I’m only human, after all.” SYDNEY J.

Author: Harris

We never do anything well ’till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Author: William Hazlitt

A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.

Author: Juan Ramon Jimenez

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom we can be as stupid as we like.

Author: Paul Valery

We love people, and we say that we were going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.

Author: Rebecca West

The real paradox is that the men who make, materially, the biggest sacrifices for their women should do the least for them ideally and romantically.

Author: Edith Wharton

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Author: Oscar Wilde

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

Author: Oscar Wilde