Oscar Wilde Quotes, Calling Quotes, Half Quotes

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

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When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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Time is a waste of money.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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