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Absolute Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
- Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the…
- It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute…
- If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all…
- Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
- I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute…
- Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute…
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- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. — Henry Adams
- What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he… — Dave Barry
- No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath the rank… — Bruce Barton
- Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view,… — Simone de Beauvoir
- It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms… — Simone de Beauvoir
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. — Aneurin Bevan
- Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology. — Theodor Adorno