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Upon Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us,…
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation…
- I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
- More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.
- Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to…
- She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
- Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of…
- In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the…
- Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix…
- Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
- It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare:…
- Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they…
- How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and…
- Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust,…
- Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for…
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- The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar… — Hannah Arendt
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to… — Norman Ralph Augustine
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- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius