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Would Be Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other…
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent…
- Life would be dull without them.
- If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
- If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
- My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.…
- 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…
- No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.…
- If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
- If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
- 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…
- Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
- What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat…
- Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a…
- Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- 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