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Becomes Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
- Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- Any place that we love becomes our world.
- Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
- It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the…
- It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
- A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?…
- I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
- I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is…
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think…
- Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
More Becomes Quotes
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a… — Rowan Atkinson
- Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. — Saint Augustine
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life. — Paul Auster
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going… — David Axelrod
- A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too… — Sai Baba
- At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged. — Charles Babbage
- In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase… — Charles Babbage
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet