Oscar Wilde Quotes, Love You Quotes

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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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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Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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