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Left Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
- Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
- Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter…
- Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left…
- 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…
- You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you.…
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and…
- the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
- The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to…
- I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute…
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