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Away Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn;…
- I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
- Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
- To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
- Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless…
- The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
- Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
- Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place…
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
- What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat…
- Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant,…
- Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put…
- In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work…
- Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when…
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
- Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there…
- When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius