Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.