Oscar Wilde Quotes, Swings Quotes, Lilies Quotes

The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

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Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.

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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

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