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Mean Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
- Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask…
- I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.
- The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
- And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
- Don't use big words. They mean so little.
- But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and…
- The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by…
- They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
- The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our…
- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
- The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
- There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things…
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How…
- I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a…
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
- Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they…
- Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by…
- Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in…
- How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it. — J. J. Abrams
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence. — Aristotle
- Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams