Oscar Wilde Quotes, Poison Quotes

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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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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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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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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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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