Biography lends to death a new terror.... -Oscar Wilde

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde , Poet
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Oscar Wilde Quotes to Explore

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious....
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train....
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information....
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular....
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes....
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything....
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed....
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects....
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance....
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes....

Death Quotes to Explore

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....