Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Passion Quotes

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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