Oscar Wilde Quotes, Summer Quotes, Flower Quotes

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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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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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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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

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I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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