Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sin Quotes, Dorian Grey Quotes

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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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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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.

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We women adore failures. They lean on us.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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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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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

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