Oscar Wilde Quotes, Past Quotes, Mourning Quotes

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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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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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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

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Most people are other people.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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It is personalities not principles that move the age.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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