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Sell also: exclude, omit

Definitions and meanings of word "except"

• Verb: take exception to; example: "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday"

• Verb: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; examples: "The bad results were excluded from the report", "Leave off the top piece"

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Oscar Wilde
6 quotes about except
Irish Writer, Poet, Dramatist, Playwright
Monday 16 October 1854 - Friday 30 November 1900
Mark Twain
6 quotes about except
American Author
Monday 30 November 1835 - Thursday 21 April 1910
George Bernard Shaw
5 quotes about except
Irish Dramatist
Saturday 26 July 1856 - Thursday 2 November 1950
Dave Barry
4 quotes about except
American Author, Journalist
Born Thursday 3 July 1947
Billy Graham
4 quotes about except
American Celebrity, Clergyman
Thursday 7 November 1918 - Wednesday 21 February 2018
Winston Churchill
3 quotes about except
English Statesman, Leader, Politician
Monday 30 November 1874 - Sunday 24 January 1965
Alice Walker
3 quotes about except
American Author
Born Wednesday 9 February 1944
Gilbert K. Chesterton
3 quotes about except
English Writer
Friday 29 May 1874 - Sunday 14 June 1936
Francis Bacon
3 quotes about except
English Statesman, Philosopher, Author, Scientist
Saturday 21 January 1561 - Thursday 9 April 1626
Brendan Behan
3 quotes about except
Irish Writer, Novelist, Poet, Dramatist, Playwright
Friday 9 February 1923 - Friday 20 March 1964
Albert Camus
3 quotes about except
French Philosopher, Author, Journalist
Friday 7 November 1913 - Monday 4 January 1960
Bill Gates
2 quotes about except
American Businessman
Born Friday 28 October 1955

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

Oscar Wilde

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No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or what may be, he is no politician.

Oscar Wilde

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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Oscar Wilde

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My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon on he might have some brown rice and some tofu, and then, come eight or nine at night, he orders three mud-pie double-chocolate pieces of cake and eats all three of them.

Oscar Wilde

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There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Oscar Wilde

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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

Oscar Wilde

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Well let's see; I'm not obsessed with... I like Walt Disney except that you know, except for the horrible fascism. I love the art of it. I like a lot of things I don't agree with and that's one of them.

Oscar Wilde

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Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Oscar Wilde

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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Oscar Wilde

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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

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There is nothing new in art except talent.

Oscar Wilde

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Oscar Wilde

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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

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I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

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I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

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The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

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