March 2012
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“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via sittinglilies)
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“They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that...”
– Oscar Wilde (via memyselfjamila)
February 2012
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Oscar Wilde
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“I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me...”
– Oscar Wilde (via iambjr)
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if...”
– Oscar Wilde (The Importance Of Being Earnest ~ 1895)
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By: Oscar Wilde
Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone, She is at rest. ...
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“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
– Oscar Wilde (via yasminethegamechanger)
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (via esperantsurunreve)
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“You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to everyone as...”
– Algernon, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (via chaoticbookshelf)
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“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
– Oscar Wilde (via praisetothebrave)
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being...”
– Oscar Wilde (via insideadreamersmind)
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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 whatokay)
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“Yes, but you must be serious about it. I hate people who are not serious about...”
– Algernon, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (via chaoticbookshelf)
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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)