Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Threshold Quotes

Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.

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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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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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To define is to limit.

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Genius is born-not paid

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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