Oscar Wilde Quotes, Love Quotes, Passion Quotes

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

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My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

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