Carelessness Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““He was dominated by the carelessness of happiness, by the high indifference of joy.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Carelessness Carelessness Happiness Dominated Carelessness Happiness High Indifference Indifference Joy Joy
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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
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“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
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With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is one excuse for every mistake a man can make, but only one. When a fellow makes the same mistake twice he's got… — George Horace Lorimer Copy Share Image
Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with the other… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
