Oscar Wilde Quotes, Doe Quotes, I Have Learned Quotes

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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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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Sphinxes without secrets.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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When both a speaker and an audience are confused, the speech is profound.

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

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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