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His Own Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- 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…
- The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury…
- The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
- Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."…
- I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.
- Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to…
- My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him…
- 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…
- How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and…
- One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own…
- Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for…
- The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the…
- Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it…
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr