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Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
Quote by -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play— I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less
Quote by -Mother Teresa