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Character Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber…
- Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too…
- Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
- To define is to limit.
- Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
- You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you.…
- My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
- The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient…
- The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
- He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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