All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
- But what is the difference between literature and journalism. Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
Best Quotes
- My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
- I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
- What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?
- I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
- Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
- We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
- If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
- Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Humility is truth.