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Memory Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
- The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats
- If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all…
- Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
- Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
- The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
- It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with…
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
- No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she…
- The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
- There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins…
- There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the…
- memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away
- Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
- We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had…
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie