Been Quotes

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Success has always been a great liar.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.