Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

Funny

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword”

Kissing Courage Betrayal

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Oscar Wilde

Writer

Love

“Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.”

Love Is Balance Gold

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Philosophical

“To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.”

People World

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Romantic

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

Love Essence

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Funny

“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”

Way Should Muffins

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Funny

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”

Temptation

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Love

“To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.”

Heart Lying

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Creative

“And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart”

Heart Sky Rose

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Melancholic

“I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.”

Men Eye Blue

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Love

“And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.”

Heart Sweet Wine

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Regretful

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

Lying Soul Regret

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Funny

“When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.”

Art Together Bankers

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