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Never regret thy fall,
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For the greatest tragedy of them all
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that I sometimes don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Oscar Wilde (The remarkable rocket)
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I like hearing myself talk.Β It is one of my greatest pleasures.Β I often have long conversations all by myself,
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Tales)
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There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away."
"Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince)
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I like hearing myself talk.Β It is one of my greatest pleasures.Β I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I donβt understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Oscar Wilde (The Happy Prince and Other Tales)
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The greatest power that a human possesses is the power of pure love.
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Debasish Mridha
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
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Oscar Wilde
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And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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One of the greatest tragedies of my life is the death of Lucien de RubemprΓ©β¦ It haunts me in my moments of pleasure. I remember it when I laugh.
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Oscar Wilde
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Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)
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What I wanted to say is, I'd like to see you become the greatest success in the world. But you'd better be on your guard. Because I'll do my damnedest to make you fail. Can't help it. I hate myself. Got to take revenge. On everyone else. Especially you. Oscar Wilde's "Reading Gaol" has the dope twisted. The man was dead and so he had to kill the thing he loved. That's what it ought to be. The dead part of me hopes you won't get well. Maybe he's even glad the same has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn't want to be the only corpse around the house!
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Eugene O'Neill (Long Dayβs Journey into Night)
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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde Stories for Children)
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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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I now understand that pity is the greatest and the most beautiful ting that there is in the world.
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Oscar Wilde (Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast)
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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.
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Oscar Wilde (Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations)
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I am not laughing Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. /you should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.
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Oscar Wilde
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The greatest events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow out in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us.
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Oscar Wilde (The Portrait of Mr. W.H.)
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Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermereβs Fan)
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I take many things seriously. Rudyard Kipling, Harper Lee, Oscar Wilde, and Elmore Leonard are all held in the highest regard. I am dead serious when I discuss the many reasons that Ernest Hemingwayβs greatest contribution to literature was his generous decision to take his own life. I will not be sucked into a discussion of politics by people who prefer emotion to reason. The designated hitter is an abomination, and the day pitchers and catchers report is the start of the new year despite what those ill-informed calendar makers might try to tell you.β βI
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But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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The greatest obstacle in understanding the universe is the conformity and fear of truth.
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Debasish Mridha
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BEATRICE: Do you truly not know who he was? Mr. Dorian Gray, the lover of Mr. Oscar Wilde, who was sent to Reading Gaol forβwell, for holding opinions that society does not approve of! For believing in beauty, and art, and love. What guilt and remorse he must feel, for causing the downfall of the greatest playwright of the age! It was Mr. Grayβs dissolute parties, the antics of his hedonistic friends, that exposed Mr. Wilde to scandal and opprobrium. No wonder he has fallen prey to the narcotic.
MARY: Or he could just like opium. He didnβt seem particularly remorseful, Bea.
JUSTINE: Mr. Gray is not what society deems him to be. He has been greatly misunderstood. He assures me that he had no intention of harming Mr. Wilde.
MARY: He would say that.
CATHERINE: Can we not discuss the Wilde scandal in the middle of my book? Youβre going to get it banned in Boston, and such other puritanical places.
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Theodora Goss (The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl (The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club, #3))
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray (Everyman S))
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There is no good talking to him,β said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; βno good at all, for he has gone away.β βWell, that is his loss, not mine,β answered the Rocket.Β βI am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention.Β I like hearing myself talk.Β It is one of my greatest pleasures.Β I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I donβt understand a single word of what I am saying.β βThen you should certainly lecture on Philosophy,β said the Dragon-fly; and he spread a pair of lovely gauze wings and soared away into the sky.
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Lord Henry laughed. βThe reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. And as for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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They peer in and at the same moment both angle back their heads, as if they have taken a position a little too close to a panoramic screen. They are tall and big-boned and look like men playing womenβs parts in a play by Oscar Wilde. βNan, Vergeβs sisters are here,β my mother says loudly. But Nan already knows, and furiously pokers the fire to try and smoke them back out. Nan here is The Aged P only with more mischievousness than Mr Wemmickβs in Great Expectations, the only book of which my father kept two copies (Books 180 and 400, Penguin Classic & Everyman Classics editions, London), both of which I have read twice, deciding each time that Great Expectations is the Greatest. If you donβt agree, stop here, go back and read it again. Iβll wait. Or be dead.
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Niall Williams (History of the Rain)
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The greatest tragedy of our age is
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Laura Chouette
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But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passione is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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And certainly for him life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.
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Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)
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I look on all the different religions as colleges in a great university. Roman Catholicism is the greatest and most romantic of them
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner." βOscar Wilde
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Leslie Langtry ('Scuse Me While I Kill This Guy (Greatest Hits, #1))
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Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying .
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Oscar Wilde
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The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind.
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Debasish Mridha
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One of the greatest bores on earth is the Anti-Semite, and for him, at least, the show should be a liberal instruction. He will be disappointed to find no examples of those peculiar knives used in the ritual murders of young boys ...β.
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Philip Hoare (Oscar Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the Most Outrageous Trial of the Century)
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Never argue against a stupid person. You will always lose.β βTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.β~Albert Einstein βBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind donβt matter and those who matter donβt mind.β~Bernard M. Baruch βBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.β~Oscar wild βTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.β~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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