Oscar Wilde Quotes, Long Quotes, People Quotes

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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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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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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