Oscar Wilde Quotes, Vices Quotes, Ruins Quotes

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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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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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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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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