Oscar Wilde Quotes, Heart Quotes, Excess Quotes

Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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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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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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"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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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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