Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- Divorces are made in heaven.
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
- 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
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