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Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a...

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of...

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Oscar Wilde: Mr. Whistler always...

Oscar Wilde: Mr. Whistler always...

Mr. Whistler always spelt art, and we believe still spells it, with a capital I.

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Oscar Wilde: The truth is...

Oscar Wilde: The truth is...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature...

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Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist, my...

A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...

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Oscar Wilde: The world has...

Oscar Wilde: The world has...

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

Oscar Wilde: The ugly and...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they...

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Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...

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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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Oscar Wilde: If you are...

Oscar Wilde: If you are...

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Source: Gwendolen,...

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Alexander Pope: Now lap-dogs give...

Alexander Pope: Now lap-dogs give...

Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A sorrow's crown...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A sorrow's crown...

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: A pasty costly...

A pasty costly made,
Where quail and pigeon, lark and leveret lay,
Like fossils of the rock, with golden...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And when they...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And when they...

And when they buried him the little port
Had seldom seen a costlier funeral.


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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Battering the gates...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Battering the gates...

Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer.

Source: St Simeon...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Authority forgets a...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Authority forgets a...

Authority forgets a dying king.

Source: Idylls of the King, The Passing of...

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Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Behold a man...

Behold a man raised up by Christ.

Source: In Memoriam, 31 (Note: the stanza numbers...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And the stately...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: And the stately...

And the stately ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half a league,...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Half a league,...

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I should count...

I should count myself the coward if I left them, my Lord Howard,
To these Inquisition dogs and the devildoms of...

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