Oscar Wilde Quotes, Contentment Quotes

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Everything in moderation, including moderation.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

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