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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.»
«A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
desires, emotion, luxury, paying, sentimentalist, sentimentalists
«Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
conditions, in condition, result, science
«He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.»
«The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the, bad, be all and end all, ended, end on, fiction, fictions, good, good for you, happily, How to be Good, in a bad way, means, that, that is, unhappily, WHAT
«When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
continue, except
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant
«Bad manners make a journalist.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bad, bad manners, journalist, manners
«A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
all the, at all, beats, beat about, beat in, beat out, beat up, breast, breasted, doubt, dust, dusted, dusting, Dust to Dust, Get High, Higher And Higher, higher up, highest, High C, high life, His, I doubt it, kneeled, kneels, knelt, like sin, moment, no doubt, sins, tells, The Beat, very
«Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
ambition, For each, for each one, in progress, kingdom, One of Us, progress, progressed, progresses, progressing, progress to, rule, the true, with ambition
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