Oscar Wilde Quotes, Drinking Quotes, Glasses Quotes

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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