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Oscar Wilde

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

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  • eadyidihhas quoted8 years ago
    The letters shall be of a rare design; the commas will be sunflowers, and the semicolons pomegranates
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    Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.
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    It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
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    Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
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    “ Ay,” answered the man, “ and the name of the rich brother is Cain.
  • eadyidihhas quoted8 years ago
    Beauty, that gives to creation its universal and aesthetic element, makes the critic a creator in his turn, and whispers of a thousand different things which were not present in the mind of him who carved the statue or painted the panel or graved the gem
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    There is only one thing worse than injustice, and that is justice without her sword in her hand. When right is not might it is evil.
  • eadyidihhas quoted8 years ago
    there is nothing I wouldn’t do—except take exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community.
  • eadyidihhas quoted8 years ago
    “Because never, and in no place, have I been able to imagine it,” answered the Man.
  • eadyidihhas quoted8 years ago
    And the young man looked up and recognized Him and made answer, “But I was dead once and you raised me from the dead, what else should I do but weep ?
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