Oscar Wilde Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Country Quotes

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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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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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

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Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

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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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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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