Quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Classics
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Quote from Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phrase seems to be a bitter one to bear, let us say that everybody is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is.
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