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Before Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- 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…
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of…
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
- 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…
- 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…
- Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
- People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
- 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…
- It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of…
- I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
- Before Turner there was no fog in London.
- Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.
- I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
- People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them…
- The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect…
More Before Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was… — Bella Abzug
- If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it? — Arthur Ashe
- Funny things tend not to happen to me. I am not a natural comic. I need to think about things a lot… — Rowan Atkinson
- Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel. — David Attenborough
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood