Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Eye Quotes

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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