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
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- 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
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Children begin by loving their parents as they grow older they judge them sometimes they forgive them.
Best Quotes
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- Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore we are saved by love.
- For every battle that you fight, remember your always a winner, do not release the rope, hold on tight.
- The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
- Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.
- I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
- It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital.
- I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.