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Subtle Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic…
- Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What…
- Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy…
- With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die.…
- Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic…
- He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to…
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
- Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we…
More Subtle Quotes
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways. — Ansel Adams
- In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. — Charles Baudelaire
- I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if… — Mayim Bialik
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- Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a… — Carter Burwell
- Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the… — Christopher Alexander
- The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my… — Nolan Bushnell
- I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and… — Emily Carr
- If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point… — Winston Churchill
- Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems… — Unknown Author
- Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles! — Unknown Author