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Tell Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask…
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the…
- An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it…
- I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
- The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of…
- Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and…
- One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would…
- A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?…
- Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither…
- There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of…
- 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…
- Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women.…
- When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love…
- Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
- No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she…
- When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I…
- One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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