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Action Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
- The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that…
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
- 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.
- The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action
- Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
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