Oscar Wilde Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Running Quotes

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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