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Ends Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
- Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
- In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an…
- There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
- Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
- Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
- Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls…
- 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…
- Art only begins where Imitation ends.
- Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
- 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…
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
- I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you,…
- I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
- God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if…
- When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
- Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a…
- Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a…
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