The following 8 quotes match your criteria:
| Author: Oscar Wilde |
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. |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long. |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
The vilest deeds like poison-weeds
Bloom well in prison-air:
It is only what is good in Man
That wastes and withers there:
Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate
And the Warder is Despair. |
| The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
| The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
| He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing. |
| The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
| As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. |
| The Critic as Artist.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
| Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. |
| De Profundis.
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| Author: Oscar Wilde |
| It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence. |
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