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One Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
- The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
- There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
- What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
- A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The…
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,…
- In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
- As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
- Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
- I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
- America is one long expectoration.
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why…
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other…
- Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
- Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
- At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
- Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
- As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good…
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- You've left a memory no one can steal, but you also left a heartache that no one can heal. — Nishan Panwar
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray