The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- 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.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
- 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
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Best Quotes
- When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.
- The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
- We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
- A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
- Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
- What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
- Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
- This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess.
- The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
- To love and win is the best thing, to love and lose, the next best.