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Wells Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The best revenge is to live well.
- Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
- It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well
- There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
- The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.
- The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they…
- It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the…
- The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above…
- Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
- I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Hatred is blind, as well as love.
- The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things…
- This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury…
- Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
- I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live…
- It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that…
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer…
- A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
- Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
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