Oscar Wilde Quotes, Moon Quotes, Looks Quotes

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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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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