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Effect Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
- Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the…
- Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved…
- Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
- I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.…
- In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead…
- Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude
- I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
More Effect Quotes
- The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times.… — Kevin Bacon
- I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good… — Alan Ball
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou
- People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more… — Albert Bandura
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead… — Gerry Adams
- The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing… — Henry Adams
- Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
- Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch… — Roseanne Barr
- The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and… — John Adams