Oscar Wilde Quotes, Unhappy Quotes, Muffins Quotes

When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.

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The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

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Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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Life would be dull without them.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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