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Names Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
- Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
- Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common…
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
- Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces…
- When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love…
- You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You…
- 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…
- When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
More Names Quotes
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them. — Julian Assange
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- '1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the… — Paul Auster
- Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because… — Teresa of Avila
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the… — Nicholson Baker