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Mode Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
- There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that…
- A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.…
- The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a…
- It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
- Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
- I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to…
- What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward…
- There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
- But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.…
- 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…
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- Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold
- Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall. — Charles Babbage
- Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude,… — Jacqueline Bisset
- People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times. — Malin Akerman
- The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight… — Deepak Chopra
- Oddly enough, I'm not a particularly judgmental person. I just don't have a lot of filtering when I'm in 'tiger mother' mode.… — Amy Chua
- I'm not very social when I'm off the promo trail, because I step into wife and mother mode. It's very reclusive. — Tori Amos
- To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or… — Tom Peters
- Every mode of transport that we use - whether it's planes, trains, automobiles, bikes, horses - is reusable, but not rockets. So… — Elon Musk
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the… — Oscar Wilde