Oscar Wilde Quotes, Dark Quotes, Reflection Quotes

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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