2026 Reading Challenge

Katrina > Katrina's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 54
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce
    “The Seven Social Sins are:

    Wealth without work.
    Pleasure without conscience.
    Knowledge without character.
    Commerce without morality.
    Science without humanity.
    Worship without sacrifice.
    Politics without principle.


    From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
    ― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
    tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
    13161 likes

    • like
  • #2
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25519 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
    tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
    46493 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71688 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    84869 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
    tags: truth
    17365 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
    14709 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: love, ordinary, people
    12032 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    tags: identity, opinions
    11872 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
    9943 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: sin
    10915 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Oscar Wilde
    “Hearts are made to be broken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
    7901 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
    ― oscar wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source
    7820 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth
    8185 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
    7169 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: experience-mistakes-wisdom
    8701 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Thomas Harris
    “[T]here is no consensus in the psychiatric community that Dr. Lecter should be termed a
    man. He has long been regarded by his professional peers in psychiatry, many of whom
    fear his acid pen in the professional journals, as something entirely Other. For
    convenience, they term him “monster”.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    17 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Thomas Harris
    “She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    28 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Thomas Harris
    “The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    43 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Thomas Harris
    “I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    38 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Thomas Harris
    “He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes do not carry, and in the sudden quiet of the drawing room they both heard him take his next breath.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    27 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Thomas Harris
    “He could see that he had too many flowers in the room, and must add more to make it come back right again. Too many flowers was too many, but way too many was just right.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    21 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Thomas Harris
    “The damp floor of the Internet sprouted Lecter theories like toadstools and sightings of the doctor rivaled those of Elvis in number.”
    ― Thomas Harris, Hannibal
    7 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic As Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything
    14692 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
    tags: love, romance
    7372 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: emotions, mercy
    5095 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Oscar Wilde
    “Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: agree
    2674 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every woman is a rebel.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: women-rebel
    2011 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Oscar Wilde
    “There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: humor
    1822 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent
    1265 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Katrina’s Quotes

character
commerce
conscience
happiness
humanity
knowledge
misattributed-to-gandhi
money
morality
pleasure
politics
principle
sacrifice
science
sin
sins
wealth
work
worship
books
reading
inspirational
optimism
perception
pessimism
intelligence
self-deprecation
truth
education
fashion
love
ordinary
people
identity
opinions
attributed-no-source
belief
death
ideals
martyr
power
sex
experience-mistakes-wisdom
romance
emotions
mercy
agree
women-rebel
humor
genius
gifts
mediocrity
recognition
sherlock-holmes
talent