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Emotion Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
- There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that…
- I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
- There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
- The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
- I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
- The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow…
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when…
- The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
- It is impossible to fall out of love. Love is such a powerful emotion, that once it envelops you it does not depart. True love…
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