Oscar Wilde quotes - page 13

Biography lends to death a new terror. (Oscar Wilde)
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. View quote
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man That wastes and withers there. View quote
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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. View quote
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I love acting. It is so much more real than life. View quote
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else. View quote
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history. View quote
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you. View quote
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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. View quote
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched. View quote
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one. (Oscar Wilde)
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. View quote
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. View quote
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They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. View quote
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. View quote
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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. View quote
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. View quote
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. View quote
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. View quote
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. View quote
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. (Oscar Wilde)
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. View quote
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I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it. View quote
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after. View quote
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This wallpaper is dreadful. One of us has simply got to go. View quote
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