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World Quotes - Page 537

What the world needs is not 'a little bit of love', but a surgical operation.

Oswald Chambers, Harry Verploegh (1990). “The Oswald Chambers Devotional Reader: 52 Weekly Themes”, Oliver-Nelson Books

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Oscar Wilde (2013). “An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised”, p.30, A&C Black

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.46, Diversion Books

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Oscar Wilde, Matthew Hofer, Gary Scharnhorst (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.177, University of Illinois Press

The history of women is the history of 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.

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.208, Oxford University Press on Demand

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Lady Windermere's Fan”, p.33, Oscar Wilde

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Prosperity – How to Attract It (Unabridged): Living a Life of Financial Freedom, Conquer Debt, Increase Income and Maximize Wealth - How to Bring Out the Man You Can Be”, p.50, e-artnow

I do not live in the world of sobriety.

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

"'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.