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Pay Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
- Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
- 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,…
- Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
- Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant…
- I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of…
- There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all,…
- Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for…
- Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
- When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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