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Giving Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why…
- 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…
- Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.
- Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
- One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.
- A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
- But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and…
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I…
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with…
- If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
- Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till…
- 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…
- Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
- In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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