Oscar Wilde Quotes, Lessons Quotes

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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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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