Burden Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““The portrait was to bear the burden of his shame: that was all.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bear Burden Burden Burden Shame Mind Painting Portrait Shame
He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thereafter, he ennobled shame. He bore it in my presence like a burden, like a tiger clinging to his shoulders, the threat of which… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
“Yes, he remembered it perfectly. He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I believe we can only see ourselves in shards of who we really are. Those who care and love us see us whole and… — Chloe Sierra Goodell Copy Share Image
“Is this the main thing that painters of portraits care about? The person on the verge of becoming someone else?” — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was only glad… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“This was the photograph, I knew, that had already burned its way into my dreams and my shadows, into that part of my mind… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.” — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“But the picture? What was he to say of that? It held the secret of his life, and told his story. It had taught… — Oscar Wilde 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
Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me. — Seungri Copy Share Image
I am at a point in my life where everything I have worked for starts to look like a burden, a weight on my… — Simone Abou Samra Copy Share Image
Trump's enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned. — Miranda Devine Copy Share Image
We want to free our citizens from the burden of excessive paper documents in every office. We want paperless transactions. We will set up… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We cannot go back in time and change the past, but we can repent. The Savior can wipe away our tears of regret and… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
With those who are willing to join, let us cooperate to reduce the burden of arms, to strengthen the structure of peace, to lift… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.” — K. Weikel Copy Share Image
And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
