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
- Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- 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.
- Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.
- The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- 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.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Best Quotes
- We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.
- There's an internal battle. I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids and the kids win.
- It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.
- A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
- I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters.
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
- When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.