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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
arrange, come on, engaged, engagement, engagements, hardly a, inform, pardon, unpleasant
«There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Joy of, morbid, sores, sympathize, sympathized, sympathizes, sympathize with, sympathizing, sympathy, terribly, with sympathy
«His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be»
«Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.»
«It is always the unreadable that occurs.»
«It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.»
«To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.»
«Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.»
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