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Best Cannot Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
- Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
- He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
- I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of…
- In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
- Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world,…
- The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
- 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…
- I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when…
- What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to…
- Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is…
- She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got…
- Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in…
- She lives the poetry she cannot write.
- Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such…
- Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust,…
- Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
- Love is not a clock. You simply cannot take it apart just to see what makes it tick, and even if you could, you probably…
- In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
- He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
- A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.
- The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
- Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden