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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Appreciate Quotes , Slave Quotes
  • That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.
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    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Vision Quotes , Purpose Quotes
  • She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Pain Quotes
  • Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Men Quotes
  • A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.
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    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Country Quotes , Land Quotes
  • Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.
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    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Men Quotes
  • I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Mistake Quotes , Garden Quotes