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Many 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…
- In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an…
- Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
- I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
- Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
- One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
- It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
- Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."…
- Man is many things, but he is not rational.
- I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he…
- All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
- The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after…
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient…
- Indeed, in many respects she was quite English and was an excellent example of the fact that we have really everything in common with America…
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson