Oscar Wilde Quotes, Regret Quotes, Book Quotes

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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

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Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.

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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

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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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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Art should never be popular.

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Art persists, it timelessly continues.

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