A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. [ George MacDonald ]
The basis of every scandal is an absolutely immoral certainty. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
God is absolutely good; and so, assuredly, the cause of all that is good. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]
We live in an age when only unnecessary things are absolutely necessary to us. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
The tastes, affections, and sentiments are more absolutely the man than his talent or acquirements. [ Henry T. Tuckerman ]
The only way to atone for being occasionally over-dressed is by being always absolutely overeducated. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]
Labour endears rest, and both together are absolutely necessary for the proper enjoyment of human existence. [ Burns ]
The whole body of the pure mathematics is absolutely useless to ninety-nine out of every hundred who study them. [ T. S. Grimke ]
Good resolutions are a useless attempt to interfere with scientific laws; their origin pure vanity, their results absolutely nil. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Whatever the will commands, the whole man must do; the empire of the will over all the faculties being absolutely overruling and despotic. [ South ]
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]
Books, to judicious compilers, are useful, - to particular arts and professions absolutely necessary, - to men of real science they are tools; but more are tools to them. [ Johnson ]
When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The study of art possesses this great and peculiar charm, that it is absolutely unconnected with the struggles and contests of ordinary life. By private interests, by political questions, men are deeply divided, and set at variance; but beyond and above all such party strifes, they are attracted and united by a taste for the beautiful in art. [ Guizot ]
Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gesture or quick movement inspires involuntary disrespect. One looks for a moment at a cascade; but one sits for hours, lost in thought, and gazing upon the still water of a lake. A deliberate gale, gentle manners, and a gracious tone of voice - all of which may be acquired - give a mediocre man an immense advantage over those vastly superior to him. To be bodily tranquil, to speak little, and to digest without effort are absolutely necessary to grandeur of mind or of presence, or to proper development of genius. [ Balzac ]