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Monstrous Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.
- The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
- So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was…
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should…
- Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares,…
- It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and…
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the…
- It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
- It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's backthat are absolutely and entirely true.
More Monstrous Quotes
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton
- Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always… — Charles Baudelaire
- With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. — Omar N. Bradley
- The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we… — John le Carre
- You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help… — Marina Abramovic
- The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used-we cannot accept the… — Linus Pauling
- When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt
- You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our… — Winston Churchill
- To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their… — William Cobbett
- The Republican candidates are talking about ways to transition this program and it is a monstrous lie. It is a ponzi scheme… — Rick Perry
- I do agree that the science is not settled on this. The idea that we would put American's economy at jeopardy based… — Rick Perry
- And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your… — Oscar Wilde