Oscar Wilde Quotes, Disappointment Quotes, Fall Quotes

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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