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Dear Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
- Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
- Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
- Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
- Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
- My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about…
- Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant…
- Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place…
- 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,…
- Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in…
- How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
- My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a…
- Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women.…
- My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is…
- What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a…
- My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you…
- Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite…
- Miss Prism: ... And you do not seem to reealize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man coverts himself into a permanent public…
- And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the…
- JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that…
- And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too…
- If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise…
More Dear Quotes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. — Honore de Balzac
- What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live… — Brigitte Bardot
- Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own… — Joseph Addison
- A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. — George Ade
- Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
- Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear… — Jeff Bridges