Oscar Wilde Quotes, Self Esteem Quotes, World Quotes

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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