Oscar Wilde Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Pain Quotes

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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The unread is always better than the unreadable.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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