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Exquisite Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
- Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
- Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
- The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
- You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more…
- When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome…
- A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless…
- Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
- I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You…
- But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot.…
- I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists…
- We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had…
More Exquisite Quotes
- An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which… — Charles Baudelaire
- Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
- Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to… — John Cleese
- In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which… — Steve Kangas
- So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and… — Johann Gottfried Herder
- Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most… — Maggie Gallagher
- At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams… — Hermann Hesse
- Ever since Blessed Alan de la Roche re-established this devotion the voice of the people, which is the voice of God, called… — Louis de Montfort
- Walking the streets of Tokyo with Hawking in his wheelchair ... I felt as if I were taking a walk through Galilee… — Freeman Dyson
- Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws… — Doris Lessing
- The Earth school is not a concept. It is an an ongoing 3-dimesional, full colour, hi-fidelity, interactive multi-media experience that does not… — Gary Zukav
- There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers… — Moliere