Oscar Wilde Quotes, Voice Quotes, Gestures Quotes

Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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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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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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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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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

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