Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes

It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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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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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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