Oscar Wilde Quotes, Pain Quotes, True Friend Quotes

But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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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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Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

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

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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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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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