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Moments Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
- At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the…
- As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will…
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the…
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
- There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles,…
- Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
- Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments
- The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
- A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all…
- To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not…
- Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
- The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
- There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the…
- Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is…
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- 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…
- My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing.…
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
- There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
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