Oscar Wilde Quotes, Night Quotes, Thinking Quotes

You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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All women are rebels.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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Education is an admirable thing.

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Divorces are made in heaven.

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There is only good art and mediocre art.

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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