Oscar Wilde Quotes, Courage Quotes, Betrayal Quotes

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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All bad art is the result of good intentions.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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