A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
- Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The koward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Best Quotes
- When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
- I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
- You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
- Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
- The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
- I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
- Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?