Oscar Wilde Quotes, Heart Quotes, Excess Quotes

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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The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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