Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
– Oscar Wilde
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- I felt in some ways we’d had some sort of sex, sex of the mind, sex of ideas, sex of words, hundreds and thousands of words… – Lily King
- To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde
- I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. – Oscar Wilde
- Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul. – John Bunyan
- I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
- I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed-”not sex-”but sex was how we got there. – Amy Hempel
- 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
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex. – Bryan Lee OMalley
- Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier. – Laurell K Hamilton
- From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power. – Oscar Wilde
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. – Oscar Wilde
- I’m too old to know everything – Oscar Wilde
- Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything. – Oscar Wilde
- She is a pea???? in everything but beauty! – Oscar Wilde
- I am not young enough to know everything. – Oscar Wilde
- There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it, no power can conquer it except the power of another idea. – James Roysmith
- Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
- The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect. – Robert McKee
- 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
- Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. – Oscar Wilde
- 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
- We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. – Oscar Wilde
- I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. – Oscar Wilde
- Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. – Oscar Wilde
- My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is – don’t give it up unless you’re willing to give him up. Not in the beginning. Sex is power! – Julieanne OConnor
- Fear least have power! The power of fear lies in the power of our fears. Without the power of our fears, fear is least empowered! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. – Thomas S Monson
- Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless. – Ellen Hopkins
- [Pride and power] are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and power can do it in the dark. – Katherine Dunn
- He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. – Henry Adams
- No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it. – Harlow Shapley
- He did not have anything on him except her thoughts, except the good times he had once shared and the bad times he so desperately wanted to forget. – Faraaz Kazi