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Use Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
- The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to…
- It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions.…
- At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Don't use big words. They mean so little.
- What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
- It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.
- It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
- Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the…
- The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
- Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to…
- Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
- If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
- I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
- I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering…
- It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I…
- I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You…
- It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow…
- Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive.…
- We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that…
- The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses… — Frank Abagnale
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. — Francis of Assisi
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use,… — Rowan Atkinson
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it's about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other… — Margaret Atwood