Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hurt Quotes, Real Quotes

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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