Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sunset Quotes, Glasses Quotes

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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