Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Class Quotes

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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