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Second Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There…
- That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
- Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the…
- Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
- After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see…
- The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are…
- The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
- If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
- Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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