Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Self Quotes

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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Everyone should keep someone else's diary.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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