Avoided Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoided Convincing Logic Vulgar
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end. — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them. — Thomas Dekker Copy Share Image
I want my arguments to be good arguments on the basis of what I actually have to say. — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A lot of arguments can be avoided if we simply stop and think about our response before we say it. — Charles Harper Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I avoided nudity unless a film couldn't be told without those scenes. If you look at my films, few of them have that element,… — Greta Scacchi Copy Share Image
Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Naive optimism and pervasive pessimism are both to be avoided, therefore. It's not an easy balance to maintain, to be asked to work away… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think… — Chuck Noll Copy Share Image
If in the words which the Secretary of State has just used, the use of a nuclear weapon is to be avoided 'at all… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I've created a narrative of the world. I live in the world - tenuously, most times. I've avoided the digital world. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is… — Alfred P. Sloan Copy Share Image
