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If they know nothing of victo...

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

memory, like a horrible malad...

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

One should never make one's e...

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The first thing that struck m...

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

She behaves as if she was bea...

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Women treat us [men] like hum...

Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I have a business appointment...

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

What is termed Sin is an esse...

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The basis of action is lack o...

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He made me see what Life is, ...

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

His style is chaos illumined ...

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Those who find ugly meanings ...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

How long could you love a wom...

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Death is a great price to pay...

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

He to whom the present is the...

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

A method of procuring sensati...

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I worshipped you too much. I ...

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Why is it that at a bachelor'...

Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

I can resist anything but the...

I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Misery and poverty are so abs...

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....