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Oscar Wilde: His work was...

Oscar Wilde: His work was...

His work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a...

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Oscar Wilde: It is perfectly...

Oscar Wilde: It is perfectly...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are...

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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: The way of...

Oscar Wilde: The way of...

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become...

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Oscar Wilde: Oh, duty is...

Oscar Wilde: Oh, duty is...

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Source:...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou shalt hear...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Thou shalt hear...

Thou shalt hear the `Never, never', whispered by the phantom years.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: No work of...

Oscar Wilde: No work of...

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything...

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Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Oscar Wilde: Scandal: gossip made...

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

Source: Cecil Graham, in Lady...

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Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Oscar Wilde: Nothing that is...

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...

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William Shakespeare: I have been...

William Shakespeare: I have been...

I have been studying how I may compare
The prison where I live unto the world.


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William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

Time's thievish progress to eternity.

Source: Sonnet 77.
-- William Shakespeare,...

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William Shakespeare: For bounty, that...

William Shakespeare: For bounty, that...

For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,
Rich, only to be...

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William Shakespeare: For the life...

William Shakespeare: For the life...

For the life to come, I sleep out the thought of it.

Source: The Winter's Tale, IV....

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George Bernard Shaw: Power does not...

George Bernard Shaw: Power does not...

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt...

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George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

George Bernard Shaw: The secret of...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We never touch...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We never touch...

We never touch but at points.

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

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are reformers...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We are reformers...

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: We lie in...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: We lie in...

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: What is a...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: What is a...

What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth...

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