Oscar Wilde Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Book Quotes

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

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History is merely gossip

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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To define is to limit.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

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