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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beau...more

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful th...more

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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I'm too old to know everything

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accu...more

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all se...more

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

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The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities.... A fresh mo...more

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Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life...more