Oscar Wilde Quotes, Jealous Quotes, Giving Quotes

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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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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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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