Oscar Wilde Quotes, Passion Quotes

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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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.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

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