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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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

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Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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