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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Control,
Emotions,
Self-mastery
| Keywords:
dominate
«The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Happiness,
Marriage,
Suspicion
| Keywords:
anything, get a look, grown, happily, has, have a look, life, like, looks, look out on, look up to, married, suspicious, take a look, the world, world
«The final mystery is oneself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mystery,
Self-knowledge,
Self awareness
| Keywords:
final, finals, mystery, oneself
«It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.»
«When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Liberty,
Revolution,
Violence
| Keywords:
blood, blooded, by hand, comes, dabble, dabbled, dabbling, handing, handing over, hands, hand out, hand to hand, hard, Harder Than You, Hard on, hard up, her, liberty, on hand, On Liberty, out of hand, shake, shake hands, shake the hand, shake up, with
«Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Education,
Knowledge,
Learning
| Keywords:
also known as, be, can, canned, Canning, Did you know, is, knowing, nothing, nothings, out of nothing, taught, that, that is, The More You Know, worth
«A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.»
«Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.»
«I can believe anything provided it is incredible.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Belief,
Imagination,
witty
| Keywords:
anything, incredible, provided
«I don't want to earn my living; I want to live.»
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