Oscar Wilde Quotes, Glasses Quotes, Optimism Quotes

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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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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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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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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History is only gossip.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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