Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hands Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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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!

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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