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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Sad Quotes , Memories Quotes
  • You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Names Quotes , Looks Quotes
  • What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
  • 5 years ago



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  • In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Disappointment Quotes , Crazy Quotes