The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
("The Picture of Dorian Gray")
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.Oscar Wilde
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Oscar Wilde
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
Oscar Wilde
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciosness, to wake their ashes in pain.
Oscar Wilde
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Oscar Wilde
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