 | Oscar Wilde - 1905 - 236 ページ
...They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtlg beauty _o£^ dpubjt. TfiPtJelieve isT very ~oulir To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert...is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. Every effect that. one produces gives one an enemy. CTo be popular one must be a mediocrity?) It is... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 302 ページ
...about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull, to doubt is intensely engrossing. To be ion the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. A high moral tone can hardly be said... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1916 - 726 ページ
...about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull, to doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular, one must be a mediocrity. There are... | |
 | Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman - 1959 - 276 ページ
...life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to medievalism. The Critic as Artist. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. In Conversation. * When one is in town one amuses one's self. When one is in the country one amuses... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 332 ページ
...about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull, to doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular, one must be a mediocrity. A high... | |
 | S.P. Sharma - 2002 - 124 ページ
...sees and the public sees nothing. *~ There are few things easier than to live badly and die well. *~ To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. *" Memory is a diary which we all carry with us. *" The books that the world calls immoral are the... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2005 - 717 ページ
...about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull, to doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to Jive, to be lulled into security is to die. Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 ページ
...remaining ashore. ~ Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890 ~ Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937 To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. -Oscar Wilde, 1856-1900This I have seen in life — he who is overcautious about himself falls into... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 2007 - 244 ページ
...fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to medievalism. %' To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. « When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1995 - 136 ページ
...absolutely relied upon. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing....is to live; to be lulled into security is to die. A truth ceases to be a truth when more than one person believes in it. Phrases and Philosophies for... | |
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To believe is very dull, to doubt is intensely engrossing. To be On the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die. 