Oscar Wilde Quotes, Jealous Quotes, Giving Quotes

I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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History is only gossip.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.

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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 one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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I won't belong to a club that accepts me as a member

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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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