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- "He's got the whole world at his feet and he can't find his shoes."
By: John Williamson World Quotes
- "It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."
By: Tennessee Williams World Quotes
- "Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!"
By: Tennessee Williams World Quotes
- "I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country."
By: Thornton Wilder World Quotes
- "Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world it's own shame."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes
- "Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
By: Oscar Wilde World Quotes

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