Oscar Wilde Quotes, Simple Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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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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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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