Oscar Wilde Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Self Quotes

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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