Oscar Wilde Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Looks Quotes

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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Any place that we love becomes our world.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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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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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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