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The sick do not ask if the han...

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Most people are other people. ...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Nothing can cure the soul but ...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The only difference between th...

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

A little sincerity is a danger...

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

To have the reputation of poss...

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Rich bachelors should be heavi...

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Man is a rational animal who a...

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The stage is not merely the me...

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

It often happens that the real...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The pure and simple truth is r...

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

An idea that is not dangerous ...

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The strength of women comes fr...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Foxhunting... the unspeakable ...

Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

And thus we rust Life's iron c...

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone. And every human heart that breaks, In prison-cell or yard, Is as that broken box that gave Its treasure to the Lord, And filled the unclean leper's house With the scent of costliest nard. Ah! happy they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from sin? How

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbi...

Feast of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1170 Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on the the lake of Galilee: The wine of life is spilt upon the sand, My heart is as some famine-murdered land Whence all good things have perished utterly, And well I know my soul in Hell must lie If I this night before God's throne must stand. 'He sleeps perchance, or rideth to the chase, Like Baal, when his prophets holed that name From morn to noon

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

The play was a great success b...

The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.

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All that I desire to point out...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

No great artist ever sees thin...

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Children begin by loving their...

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde 2454 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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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....