Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes, Evil Quotes

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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At six o'clock we cleaned our cells, At seven all was still, But the sough and swing of a mighty wing The prison seemed to fill, For the Lord of Death with icy breath Had entered in to kill.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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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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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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