Oscar Wilde Quotes, Dark Quotes, Reflection Quotes

Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

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