Oscar Wilde Quotes, Regret Quotes, Doe Quotes

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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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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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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