Oscar Wilde Quotes, Twilight Quotes, Book Quotes

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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Truth is independent of facts always.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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