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Impression Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
- A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a…
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate…
- Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young…
- The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
- My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a…
More Impression Quotes
- Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries… — Marcus Aurelius
- Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought. — Joseph Barbera
- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- Nobody counts the number of ads you run; they just remember the impression you make. — William Bernbach
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — Saul Bellow
- The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly… — Charlotte Bronte
- Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns
- It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's… — Alan Alda
- Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign. — Jeb Bush
- If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my… — Jim Carrey