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Looks Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
- To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
- What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true…
- Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
- Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
- Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades,…
- Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are…
- A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman…
- Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real…
- Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
- That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
- Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
- I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too…
- To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
- No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
- As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
- The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
- While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
- No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering…
- He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in…
- To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
- 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…
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- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi
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