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Day Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
- 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…
- He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least…
- The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to…
- I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
- Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
- It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the…
- For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be…
- There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of…
- Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."…
- For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That…
- You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are…
- I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming…
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
- Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put…
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting…
- 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…
- I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the…
- How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and…
- I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep…
- If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment.…
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- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong