Oscar Wilde Quotes, Diaries Quotes, Today Quotes

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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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

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The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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