Do you really think it is weakness that yields to — Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.
More by Oscar Wilde
When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
I can resist everything except temptation. Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) act 1
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. definition of a cynic
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.
Bertolt Brecht
I was so horrified when I read about the effects of smoking that I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman