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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He will hold...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: He will hold...

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,
Something better than his dog, a little...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Here at the...

Here at the quiet limit of the world,
A white-haired shadow roaming like a dream
The ever-silent spaces of the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I must lose...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I must lose...

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O you chorus...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O you chorus...

O you chorus of indolent reviewers.

Source: Experiments in Quantity, `Milton,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Or when the...

Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then the maiden...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Then the maiden...

Then the maiden Aunt
Took this fair day for text, and from it preached
An universal culture for the...

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Oscar Wilde: Bad manners make...

Oscar Wilde: Bad manners make...

Bad manners make a journalist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Oscar Wilde: This morning I...

Oscar Wilde: This morning I...

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Source: Lord Goring, in An...

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Oscar Wilde: Society exists only...

Oscar Wilde: Society exists only...

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is...

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Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Source: Lecture...

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Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man...

Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man...

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for...

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Oscar Wilde: There is something...

Oscar Wilde: There is something...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is...

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Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our...

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Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the...

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Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would...

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Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize...

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Source: The Picture of Dorian...

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