“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
Oscar Wilde

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · COOL
Read 200 of the best cool quotes about keeping calm, effortless style, confidence and cool evenings, from Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain and more.
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”
Oscar Wilde
“I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Oscar Wilde
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Oscar Wilde
“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.”
Oscar Wilde
“I shall be born when and where I want, and I do not choose to be born in Lowell.”
James McNeill Whistler
“Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.”
Samuel Johnson
“Thank you for the manuscript; I shall lose no time in reading it.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
Mark Twain
“Never put off till to-morrow what may be done day after to-morrow just as well.”
Mark Twain
“We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
Mark Twain
“I am looking for an honest man.”
Diogenes
“I am a citizen of the world.”
Diogenes
“If.”
The Spartans
“Come back with your shield or on it.”
Spartan Mother
“Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.”
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand
“Heroism is an obedience to a secret impulse of an individual's character.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What is once well done is done forever.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature.”
Marcus Aurelius
“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca
“The superior man is easy to serve and difficult to please.”
Confucius
“A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“Motley's the only wear.”
William Shakespeare
“When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?”
Michel de Montaigne