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Lives Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other…
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the…
- Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of…
- Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
- I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- 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…
- Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
- He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
- My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity,…
- All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting…
- For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the…
- She lives the poetry she cannot write.
- He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
- Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever…
- He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
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- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
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- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius