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Worth Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
- An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
- Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
- Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
- How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say…
- Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
- 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…
- Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as…
- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which…
- Youth is the only thing worth having.
- It is only the sacred things that are worth touching
- 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…
- Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
- It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
- Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
More Worth Quotes
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- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions. — Marcus Aurelius
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. — Robert Baden-Powell
- No one can figure out your worth but you. — Pearl Bailey
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth… — Antonio Banderas
- Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books… — Russell Banks
- I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making. — Javier Bardem
- I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life will have… — Brigitte Bardot