Oscar Wilde Quotes, Heart Quotes, Years Quotes

For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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The weather still continues charming.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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