Oscar Wilde Quotes, Romance Quotes, Lessons Quotes

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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She has form," he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - "that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good.

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Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Outcasts always mourn.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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