Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Real Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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