Oscar Wilde Quotes, History Quotes

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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

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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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

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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

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

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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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