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Self Denial 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.
- 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…
- The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
More Self Denial Quotes
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. — Honore de Balzac
- People - and I include myself - get fat because they choose pleasure over self-denial. — Julie Burchill
- Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. — Lord Chesterfield
- Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Teach self-denial and make its practice pleasure, and you can create for the world a destiny more sublime that ever issued from… — Walter Scott
- Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in… — Charles Simmons
- Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. — George Bernard Shaw
- The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial. — Victor Hugo