821 – “As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.”

–Josh Billings [Note, spelling is exact to sources]

704 – “The wise learn many things from their enemies; for caution preserves all things. From a friend you could not learn this, but your foe immediately obliges you to learn it.”

–Aristophanes

638 – “To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

–Ludwig van Beethoven [Attributed, likely apocryphal; See Source Notes for more info]

607 – Oscar Wilde Price and Value Quote

–A Conversation between Lord Darlington and Cecil Graham in Oscar Wilde’s Play Lady Windermere’s Fan

Cecil Graham: “What is a cynic?”

Lord Darlington: “A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Cecil Graham: “And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn’t know the market price of any single thing.”

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408 – “The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

–Lord Illingworth in Oscar Wilde’s play “Woman of No Importance“

328 – “And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen turns them to shapes and give airy nothings a local habitation and a name.”

–Theseus in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

242 – “Who, being loved, is poor?”

–Hester Worsley in Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance

149 – “Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”

-Lord Polonius reading in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet