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Hands Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am…
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to…
- And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears…
- I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
- To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for…
- Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix…
- sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it
- What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering…
- The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow…
- Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in…
- The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
- Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf