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Oscar Wilde
It is sweet...
It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is...
Do you really...
Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible...
The Governor was...
The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific...
Grief has turned...
Grief has turned her fair.
Source: Referring to the fact that a recently-bereaved...
Popularity is the...
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
But what is...
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...
Private information is...
Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Something was dead...
Something was dead in each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
Source: The Ballad...
Who am I...
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Source: Refusing to make alterations to one...
An excellent man!...
An excellent man! He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
There is much...
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in...
The vilest deeds...
The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air;
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and...
He would stab...
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
Yes, I am...
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of...
The gods bestowed...
The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
Source: Referring to Max...
Down the long...
Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened...
He must have...
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep...
Art never expresses...
Art never expresses anything but itself.
Source: The Decay of Lying.
-- Oscar...
And now, I...
And now, I am dying beyond my means.
Source: Sipping champagne on his...
The only thing...
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing...