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Self Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
- Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places…
- The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The…
- Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.
- 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…
- To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
- When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls…
- Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
- My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
- You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on…
- Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
- To be in love is to surpass one's self.
- Art never expresses anything but itself.
- To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance
- The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of…
- There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster