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Means Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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.)
- 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…
- 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.
- Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- 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…
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- 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…
- Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the…
- And now, I am dying beyond my means.
- Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
More Means Quotes
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- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
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- If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem. — M H Abrams
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