Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes, Differences Quotes

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

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In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.

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Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.

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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

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The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

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But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

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Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

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Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion.

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Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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The child as a monument to the passion of two people; the will to oneness in two.

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Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

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Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it, Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

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It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

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