Oscar Wilde Quotes, Summer Quotes, Flower Quotes

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

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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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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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