Oscar Wilde Quotes, Soul Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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Genius is born-not paid

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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