Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Night Quotes

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.

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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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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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

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To be premature is to be perfect

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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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