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Origin Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- 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…
- It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
- It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we…
- Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and…
More Origin Quotes
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
- I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking… — Mortimer Adler
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to… — Mortimer Adler
- Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there… — Annie Besant
- Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested… — Ambrose Bierce
- When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as… — Jack Black