Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Sympathy Quotes

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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