i can resist anything but temptation

Lady Windermere's Fan

The Picture of Dorian Grey

lady windermere's fan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Windermere's_Fan

the picture of dorian gray:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Picture_of_Dorian_Gray

oscar wilde:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_wilde

oscar wilde quotes:

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"Lady Windemere's Fan"

• My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

• I can resist anything but temptation.

• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

• Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

• What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

• Only the shallow know themselves.

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"The Picture of Dorian Gray"

• The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

• Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

• I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

• I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

• Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

• One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

• Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

• When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

• Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

• There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

• To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

• When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

• Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.

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"The Importance of Being Earnest"

• When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

• To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

• It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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"The Soul of Man Under Socialism"

• Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

• I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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"The Remarkable Rocket"

• The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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"A Woman of No Importance"

• I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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"An Ideal husband"

• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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"De Profundis"

• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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"L'Envoi"

• Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

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"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"

• Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.

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"The Ballad of Reading Gao"

• We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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"The Canterville Ghost"

• To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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"The Critic as Artist"

• But what is the difference between literature and journalism?

...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

• One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

• Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.

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"The Model Millionaire"

• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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"Others"

• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

• A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

• America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

• America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

• Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

• Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

• Biography lends to death a new terror.

• Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

• Genius is born--not paid.

• I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

• I am not young enough to know everything.

• I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.

• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

• Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

• Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

• Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

• Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

• One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

• One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

• Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

• Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

• The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

• The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

• The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

• To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

• We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

• We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

• Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

• Why was I born with such contemporaries?

• Wisdom comes with winters.

• One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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related:

Test for Echo

"resist" rush/ words by neil peart :

I can learn to resist anything but temptation
I can learn to coexist with anything but pain

I can learn to compromise anything but my desires
I can learn to get along with all the things I can't explain

I can learn to resist anything but frustration
I can learn to persist with anything but aiming low

I can learn to close my eyes to anything but injustice
I can learn to get along with all the things I don't know

You can surrender without a prayer
But never really pray pray without surrender

You can fight without ever winning
But never ever win without a fight

I can learn to resist anything but temptation
I can learn to coexist with anything but pain

I can learn to compromise anything but my desires
I can learn to get along with all the things I can't explain