Quote by Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianit

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Charm
Read Quote

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Society
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Abstinence
category

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket. – Horace Greeley

Category:
Abstinence

Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Abstinence

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. – Epictetus

Category:
Abstinence

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. – Saint Augustine of Hippo

Category:
Abstinence

Random Quotes

I know Im drinking myself to a slow death, but then Im in no hurry. – Robert Benchley

Category:
Death

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. – John Ruskin

Category:
architecture

If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and thats broken apart, I think thats probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area. – Bridget Moynahan

Category:
Family

Basically you are like two parallel lines which never meet. Dialogue seems to be impossible. All is monologue — you are talking to yourself and the other is talking to himself. Two monologues together look like a dialogue only in appearance. – Osho, The Revolution: Talks on Kabir, 1979

Category:
Speaking