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Oscar Wilde: Absolute catholicity of...

Oscar Wilde: Absolute catholicity of...

Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of...

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Oscar Wilde: I never saw...

Oscar Wilde: I never saw...

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

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Oscar Wilde: Whatever harsh criticisms...

Oscar Wilde: Whatever harsh criticisms...

Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of...

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Oscar Wilde: Conversation should touch...

Oscar Wilde: Conversation should touch...

Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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Oscar Wilde: If they have...

Oscar Wilde: If they have...

If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and...

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Oscar Wilde: A man who...

Oscar Wilde: A man who...

A man who moralises is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralises is invariably plain.

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Oscar Wilde: Conscience and cowardice...

Oscar Wilde: Conscience and cowardice...

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: No great artist...

Oscar Wilde: No great artist...

No great artist sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to be an artist.

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Oscar Wilde: Good artists exist...

Oscar Wilde: Good artists exist...

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they...

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Oscar Wilde: Genius is born,...

Oscar Wilde: Genius is born,...

Genius is born, not paid.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith...

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William Shakespeare: Then to Silvia...

William Shakespeare: Then to Silvia...

Then to Silvia let us sing
That Silvia is excelling.
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth...

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William Shakespeare: O God! methinks...

William Shakespeare: O God! methinks...

O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do...

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Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

Charlotte Bronte: If you are...

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did...

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Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Charlotte Bronte: Better to be...

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Source: The Professor, 1846.
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Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Charlotte Bronte: Cheerfulness, it would...

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state...

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William Wordsworth: Continuous as the...

William Wordsworth: Continuous as the...

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way.


Source: I...

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William Wordsworth: I heard a...

William Wordsworth: I heard a...

I heard a thousand blended notes
While in a grove I sate reclined,
In that sweet mood when pleasant...

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William Wordsworth: I have learned<br>To...

William Wordsworth: I have learned
To...

I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth: but hearing oftentimes
The still,...

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William Wordsworth: A power is...

William Wordsworth: A power is...

A power is passing from the earth
To breathless Nature's dark abyss;
But when the great and good depart,
What...

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William Wordsworth: She was a...

William Wordsworth: She was a...

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's...

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