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After Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after…
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the…
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
- I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that…
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
- The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
- For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That…
- After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see…
- Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
- I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look…
- Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch…
- The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after…
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.
- Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood