Oscar Wilde Quotes, Secret Quotes, Cost Quotes

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

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It was only in the theatre that I lived

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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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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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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

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