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Few Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the…
- The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every…
- Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
- There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
- Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
- 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…
- A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless…
- 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…
- It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of…
- The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
- I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute…
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