Oscar Wilde Quotes, Heart Quotes, Winning Quotes

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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