Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.
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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.
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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.
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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
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Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.
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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.