Oscar Wilde Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Luxury Quotes

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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To be premature is to be perfect

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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