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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • 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!
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Jealous Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Dream Quotes , Lying Quotes
  • Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Time Quotes , Kings Quotes
  • Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Men Quotes
  • If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!
  • 5 years ago



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  • There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Memories Quotes , Passion Quotes