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.
(via karkthescallywag)
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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)