Oscar Wilde Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Flower Quotes

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

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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.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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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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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

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