Oscar Wilde Quotes, Shallow Quotes, Lost Quotes

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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