Oscar Wilde Quotes, Yield Quotes, Temptation Quotes

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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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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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

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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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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

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