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Quotes by Dramatist
"Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction."
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"The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
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"Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.''You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.''Before which Dorian? The one who is pouring out tea for us, or the one in the picture?''Before either.''I should like to come to the theatre with you, Lord Henry,' said the lad.'Then you shall come; and you will come, too, Basil, won't you?''I can't, really. I would sooner not. I have a lot of work to do.''Well, then you and I will go alone, Mr. Gray.''I should like that awfully.'The painter bit his lip and walked over, cup in hand, to the picture. 'I shall stay with the real Dorian,' he said, sadly."
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"I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."
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"Failure is only the name that we give to our mistakes."
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"It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
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"In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?"
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"Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea."
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world... They live as we all should live-undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet... Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are-my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study."
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"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
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"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."
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"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
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"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes."
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"I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection."
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"Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it."
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"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."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"Ah! Happy they whose hearts can break. And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his path. And cleanse his soul from sin? How else but through a broken heart. May the Lord Christ enter in?"
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"How true a twain Seemeth this concordant one! Love hath reason, Reason none, If what parts, can so remain."
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"The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
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"I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best."
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"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."
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