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First Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual,…
- Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
- The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they…
- There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
- Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
- In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that…
- Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see…
- When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first…
- Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What…
- If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we…
- I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You…
- If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
- The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
- I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
- 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,…
- Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information. I attribute it to the superior…
- Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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