A Quote by Oscar Wilde

You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

Oscar Wilde

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Destroyed Had Me Wrong

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Oscar Wilde
Irish - Poet
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900

The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- vampires, my parents, everything. He’d told me my parents lied. I yelled at him for it. He forgave me. He told me vampires were killers. I told him they weren’t, even after one stalked Raquel. He told me Charity was dangerous. I didn’t listen, and she killed Courtney. He told me vampires were treacherous, and did I get the message? Not until my illusions had been destroyed by my parents’ confession.

Claudia Gray

If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

Saint Augustine

I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.

Oskar Schindler

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

Adam Ant

We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

Franz Kafka

Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford's was.

Roger Scruton

When the world is destroyed, it will be destroyed not by its madmen but by the sanity of its experts and the superior ignorance of its bureaucrats.

John le Carre

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Brigitte Nielsen

Wife number four destroyed me absolutely: took me down to the bottom of the barrel because I had three kids with her.

Lorenzo Lamas

I wish I had [letters], can you imagine their value, and I don't mean merely financially. I am sure they were accidentally destroyed or that Schaub found them and destroyed them. [Adolf] Hitler didn't want those letters read by anyone but Eva [Braun] and had made that point clear in the course of the years.

Gretl Braun

Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

William Butler Yeats

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Emil Cioran

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

Bunker Roy

Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.