Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

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

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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