Oscar Wilde Quotes, Giving Quotes, Perfect Quotes

"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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In his very rejection of art Walt Whitman is an artist. He tried to produce a certain effect by certain means and he succeeded....He stands apart, and the chief value of his work is in its prophecy, not in its performance. He has begun a prelude to larger themes. He is the herald to a new era. As a man he is the precursor of a fresh type. He is a factor in the heroic and spiritual evolution of the human being. If Poetry has passed him by, Philosophy will take note of him.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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