Oscar Wilde Quotes, Girl Quotes, Engagement Quotes

An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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