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And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.


Oscar Wilde

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You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.
OSCAR WILDE Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES All my first [visiting] child wanted to do was swim, ride a bicycle, garden and play with the hose. ...
MARIANNE CAVEN The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, the...
C. JOYBELL C. Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY You get like a crazy person. I worked on the butterfly garden at Lenoir Nature Center and I'm not ab...
BEVERLY SMITH And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say ...
BIBLE I'm happy to come home and have a chance to play in the Garden and play against my cousin and have o...
SEBASTIAN TELFAIR I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN Lao Tzu once said, 'Nature doesn’t hurry, yet everything is accomplished.'

A single see...
JENNIFER SODINI Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out...
BIBLE Keep your ideals with you and seek help from them. These are useless for me. Your shoe do not fit mi...
ADEEL BIN AHMED But you smiled at me and said consolingly, "People come back again."
"Yes" I said, "they come b...
STEFAN ZWEIG Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must...
JIM MORRISON My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, / The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: / How oft her...
EDWARD FITZGERALD Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN This plant represents what's happening inside of you. The world, like the soil, is cold and dark—l...
SETH ADAM SMITH Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all...
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway<...
ROBERT FROST I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is ...
ORHAN PAMUK They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... It is better to remove the weeds from your own garden, before you start with your neighbours.
DUTCH PROVERB The auction is casual and you could have been in the garden all day, at baseball or soccer, come hom...
CATHY HERDNER I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian da...
JANE TAYLOR You take away my golden dreams and my visions of paradise, in its place you wake me up and hand me y...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's -...
DENIS O'HARE We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You must not forget that you have ...
VICTOR HUGO I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with ...
NEIL GAIMAN Most gardeners don't need me telling them that it's good to have year-round interest. You want a gar...
KEN THOMPSON How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the sta...
CHARLES DICKENS Every soul shall taste of death, and you shall only be paid fully your reward on the resurrection da...
QURAN Being a friend to your child is the best gift you give to your child.
JONATHAN CHEN The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I vow that from this day forward you shall not walk alone. My strength is your protection, my heart ...
DANA MARIE BELL I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and fami...
JULIE ANDREWS In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE If you have gold and diamonds in your garden, there is no reason to live in misery.
LUIS CASTILLO Jonathan Drazen," I said, squeezing his hand. "You're a manipulative bastard, a brazen liar, and a s...
C.D. REISS When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, And the stars being to flicker in the sky,Thru'...
MITCHELL PARISH Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
STEVE MARABOLI I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?&...
SIRENA HUANG The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how...
BIBLE Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Ian didn't come. He just sat here with you--he said he didn't care what you looked like. He wouldn't...
STEPHENIE MEYER Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disc...
BIBLE Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disci...
BIBLE Some believe that as an icon the image of Oscar Wilde is too old and notorious--all right, not an ic...
LARA BIYUTS Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL My cousin was talking to him, he said, 'hey let me call you back. They are flashing me,
JUAN CARLOS My son turned 10 just the other day. He said, 'Thanks for the ball, dad, come on let's play - Can yo...
HARRY CHAPIN My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I ...
MIRANDA HART We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled....
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Curran and Kate stood by the door.
“I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check...
ILONA ANDREWS Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I will give you three days to seek your shadow. Return to me in the course of that time with a well-...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ...
BILLY EICHNER Do not go to the garden of flowers!O friend! go not there;In your body is the garden of flowers.Take...
KABIR Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this oc...
SOCRATES I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him...
BIBLE California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see, But believe it or not, you won't find ...
WOODY GUTHRIE Remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day.
ANNE BOLEYN I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
SAM SMITH To be able to walk out the door when you come home from a job and wander into the garden to do a bit...
MARY BERRY You're making me feel like a skunk at the garden party.
KEN STARR Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passe...
QUR'AN Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passe...
SCOTT REED And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall...
BIBLE Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
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OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
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I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
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OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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