I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
– Oscar Wilde
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- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde
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- Professionalism shouldn’t be defined by a persons paycheck, role or title. It should be defined by a persons work ethic – Janna Cachola
- I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it. – Rumman Bin Sadiq
- All those persons who ride high on the clouds of perfection refuse to accept that they could become better persons. – Balroop Singh
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. – Oscar Wilde
- The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde
- It is rarely in the world’s history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world. – Oscar Wilde
- We should be people of principles and should fight for these principles – Sunday Adelaja
- It was here I learnt that corporate principles and military principles are basically the same. Insulation. Illusion. Hype. Activity. – Tarun J Tejpal
- Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles. – Mary Lydon Simonsen
- If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed. – Tiffany Madison
- Friendship…is not something you learn in school,but if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship you really haven’t learned anything. – Oscar Wilde
- My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. – Oscar Wilde
- As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. – Oscar Wilde
- I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde
- A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on. – Oscar Wilde
- Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World’s had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow… – Oscar Wilde
- The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner. – Oscar Wilde
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- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. – Oscar Wilde
- The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. – Oscar Wilde
- A lily-girl, not made for this world’s pain. – Oscar Wilde
- Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
- We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. – Oscar Wilde
- Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. – Oscar Wilde
- The world after a war is a good world, I told myself. A happy world. A secure world. In this world, I might do anything. – Jennifer Niven
- See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else… That someone else is you. – Brey King
- He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
- Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
- Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
- Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
- To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
- Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
- They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
- You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde