Books Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Inspirational quotes Reding
“It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“You might fear you don’t have what it takes, but you don’t need to have all the answers or everything figured right from the… — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“By the time you've figured out how the world works, you've already lost about everything you've hope to keep.” — Paul Pope Copy Share Image
“Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about a person's priorities in life by reading their will.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“it's not a matter of knowing what to do, it's allowing yourself to be free enough to see possibilities.” — Kate Perry Copy Share Image
“You just need to think of what you have instead of what you don’t.” — Ruth Ann Nordin Copy Share Image
“You don't have to know how you are going to accomplish your goals, you just have to know that you will.” — Mike Basevic Copy Share Image
“When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far you can't follow them all the way… — Haruki Murakami 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 but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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