Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nature Quotes, Errors Quotes

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

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Fantastic shadows of birds

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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