Oscar Wilde Quotes, Girl Quotes, Order Quotes

Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

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

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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