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Body 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…
- Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
- He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I…
- The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
- There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
- By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
- Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have…
- What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward…
- 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…
- I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always,…
- I drink to separate my body from my soul.
- Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in…
- We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
- LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and…
- What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
- The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is…
More Body Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine