Fatal Quotes
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde -
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde -
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde -
Reverence is fatal to literature.
E. M. Forster -
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Oscar Wilde -
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
August Strindberg -
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
Oscar Wilde
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However it happened, she at any rate suffered herself to be allured to the fatal spot, and so gave opportunity to the Devil. For we should keep as far as possible from that which is prohibited, nor ever tempt God by unnecessarily approaching it, either through curiosity or any other impelling cause. Had Eve avoided the vicinity of the tree, she could never have cast upon it that look which ruined herself and the world.
G. H. Pember -
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke -
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster -
The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
Ward McAllister -
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.
Odilon Redon
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Every departure from class struggle has fatal results for the destiny of socialism.
Enver Hoxha -
It is fatal to be right when the rest of the world is wrong.
Brother Theodore -
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis de Rougemont -
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
Kate Morton -
We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.
Benjamin Rush -
Central planning doesn't work. A little bit of it is a drag. A lot is fatal.
Bill Bonner
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One may ride upon a tiger's back but it is fatal to dismount.
Ernest Bramah -
There will be fatal crashes, that's for sure.
Christopher Hart -
Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.
Edna Buchanan -
Eavesdropping's a sin, but ignorance is fatal. Take your pick.
Elizabeth Bear