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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart
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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
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I wrote when I did not know life now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written life can only be lived.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
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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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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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