Oscar Wilde Quotes, Yield Quotes, Law Quotes

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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Every thing to be true must become a religion.

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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All art is at once surface and symbol.

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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