Books Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books
“Don't let yourself slip and get any perfect characters... keep them people, people, people, and don't let them get to be symbols.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the author intended a symbol to be there, because the job of reading is not to understand the authors… — John Green Copy Share Image
“In essence, it is not what it looks like but what it does that defines a symbol.” — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
“Our symbols aren’t supposed to matter, but that’s wishful thinking—symbols always matter.” — Scott Sigler Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“into my pocket. We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.” — Matt Copy Share Image
“More important, wearing your symbol demonstrates that you have accepted the future it represents.” — Joelle Charbonneau Copy Share Image
“You are a symbol, Vhalla. And, despite what some may have you believe, you have more control over what you symbolize than anyone else.” — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
“For the essence of the symbol cannot be altered without altering its sense.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
