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Ruins Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
- Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
- You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose…
- How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
- The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us…
- A kiss may ruin a human life
- The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
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- The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker
- Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin. — Honore de Balzac
- I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and… — John Adams
- Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man… — Joseph Addison
- There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or… — Berenice Abbott
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that… — Ambrose Bierce
- Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined. — Josh Billings
- The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. — Josh Billings
- Politics ruins the character. — Otto von Bismarck
- And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter… — Aeschylus
- You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense. — Aeschylus
- Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. — Aesop