February 2012
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...
– Oscar Wilde (via nickokick)
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But...
– Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Gwendolen - Cecily - it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth....
– Oscar Wilde - The importance of being Earnest. (via itsnowhereman)
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of...
– Oscar Wilde (via nickokick)
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same
– Oscar Wilde (via schoolofattraction)
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Lady Bracknell: Do you smoke?
Jack: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke
Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
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Sin is the only colour-element left in modern life.
– Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...
– Oscar Wilde (via streetsavant)
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To define is to limit.
– Oscar Wilde (via nomoreundead)
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what...
– Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (via whimsicalimpertinence)
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of...
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There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is...
– Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
– Oscar Wilde
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he...
– Oscar Wilde (via theblogisalie)
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
– Oscar Wilde (via penrose-stairs)
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...
– Oscar Wilde (via balsiek)
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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde (via theunquotables)
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...
– Oscar Wilde (via thearousalofmyinterest)
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in...
– Oscar Wilde
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Regardez la lune. La lune a l’air très étrange. On dirait une femme qui sort...
– Salomé - Oscar Wilde (via kindlesurprise)
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via comme-la-mer)
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am...
– Oscar Wilde (via lettherebequotes)
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is...
– Lord Henry Wotton, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via mercutiosbowtie)
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
– Oscar Wilde (via descentintodreamland)
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original...
– Oscar Wilde (via halifornia)
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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via brandontylerday)
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be...
– Lord Henry, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via sambradfield)
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Education is a wonderful thing, provided you always remember that nothing worth...
– Oscar Wilde (via letthedaisiesgrow)
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To cure the soul by means of the senses, & the senses by means of the soul.
– Oscar Wilde (via nowwedream)
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
– Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it....
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Truly a beautiful piece of literature; it is unlike anything that I’ve ever read before.
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It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when...
– Oscar Wilde (via escapethroughthepages)
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I felt that this grey monstrous London of ours, with it’s myriads of people, it...
– Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. (via followmewithsilentfootsteps)
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he...
– by Oscar Wilde (via theblankpoint)