Oscar Wilde Quotes, Garden Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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