Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Flower Quotes

Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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

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Life is too short to be in a hurry.

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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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California is an Italy without its art.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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