Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sorry Quotes, Suffering Quotes

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

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History is merely gossip

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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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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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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