Oscar Wilde Quotes, Life Quotes, Sympathy Quotes

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

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The proper school to learn art is not life but art

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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