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Instinct Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete…
- There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of…
- 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…
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- Experience is a question of instinct about life.
- I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious…
- I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain…
- Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
- 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.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we…
- Relations are simply a tediouspack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is a sign of our imperfect…
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