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Whole Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never…
- Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask…
- As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in…
- There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
- I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
- I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a…
- Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me,…
- Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to…
- Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and…
- My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing.…
- 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.…
- Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put…
- I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It…
- When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come…
- Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we…
- LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he…
- How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and…
- Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints…
- I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.…
- I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do…
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- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
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