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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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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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