Oscar Wilde Quotes, Obviousness Quotes, Ability Quotes

The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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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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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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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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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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