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Kind Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
- The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else,…
- God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
- Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window,…
- The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves
- There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should…
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
- One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
- Do you smoke? Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some…
- 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…
- Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
- And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too…
- 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…
- I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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