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Either Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
- It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]
- What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either…
- The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the…
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
- 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,…
- Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
- One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
- To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
- LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
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- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
- Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies,… — Jane Austen
- You have to protect it too, you can't let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At… — Paul Auster
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon
- Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be… — Francis Bacon