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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.


Oscar Wilde

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HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
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HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
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SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. H...
NEIL SIMON He was retired, and he loved the lake. He had sold his boat, so he figured this was a way to be out ...
AL DARDIS Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde ...
G.K. CHESTERTON Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.
BIBLE The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde
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PETER FINCH Perry went from 270 to 300-plus from junior to senior season. He lifted heavily and participated in ...
JOHN JACKSON He was hidden there. We saw what a good senior season he had, and that he had a cannon for an arm, a...
PAUL VOSBURGH Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $30...
THEODORE HESBURGH I was hoping he wasn't in there, but he was they found him on the couch.
CLIFF LANDRY The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
OSCAR WILDE I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordswort...
JOHN BURROUGHS He knew all he had to do was beat the guy in front of him. He went out there and wrestled his match.
AARON SARRA He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender h...
HEIDI CULLINAN I tell you what he did, he went out and found Joey Martin all summer. We went to every tournament he...
BRYAN MCCARTY A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he ...
LEMONY SNICKET He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, “Beyond here be m...
LOUISE PENNY But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
ANDREW MOTION He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
J.M. BARRIE It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already l...
DOUGLAS FEITH He really did live in two different worlds. He was real good at his job. He knew engineering. It cam...
ELLIOT JACOBOWITZ This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
URSULA K. LE GUIN My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the f...
FERNANDO TORRES The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The whole time I was on 'Grey's,' I'm still reconciling myself to my 11-year-old son...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON He played the good ole' boy role and didn't go against them although he was already outvoted. He has...
CYNTHIA MADDOX Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of...
JOSEPH HELLER Because it was hot and the ball was slippery Karl found the lineout throwing a bit difficult but in ...
DAVE THOMAS My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he foun...
PATTY JENKINS He had just been to the school earlier, but I didn't know for sure when he was there. So I went ahea...
BRENT VINSON This was a young man who had a very rough time growing up, but he never showed that, never complaine...
EDWARD ROMERO So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his or...
MICHAEL LEVENSON He got cramps in his leg or whatever. He went under. To me he was angel because he saved the kids. I...
DIANA GONZALEZ He went out there and gave it everything he had, but unfortunately he had some kind of bug. I think ...
VINCE TROMBETTI After the race, I went and found him. He said not to worry about it. I thought he might rough me up ...
DAVID REUTIMANN I had to ask Oscar a lot of questions to fill in the gaps. He called it free therapy. We had fights,...
LUIS MANDOKI I think he was astonished he won it, ... I wasn't, of course. He considered himself a minor poet, no...
ANNE WRIGHT When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all man...
HOWARD BAHR I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
E.M. FORSTER We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generat...
THOM GUNN I think he was confounded that the case even went to trial, ... And he couldn't believe we were foun...
KEELEY He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was t...
J.K. ROWLING ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
PHILIP SIDNEY He made it to look like it was an original fireplace wall, because he already had a great period man...
DENISE CARPENTIER The side of his face had gone numb so he went to a dentist, but was told he should see a doctor as w...
RUTH LIGGETT The kids absolutely loved him. He had a lot of kids who had never played before and he was very welc...
AMY TOWE He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought wa...
MERVYN PEAKE Mike said he was already thinking of going on active duty, but after 9/11, he felt that he had to do...
JUDY TAYLOR The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
EUGENIO MONTALE Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certa...
MICHAEL R. FRENCH The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.
JEAN COCTEAU I went to see Dad in hospital after he had gone through one particularly grueling operation. I walke...
RACHEL JOYCE When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe...
UMBERTO ECO He went out there and he battled. He was truly battle-tested for the whole game. And to me, it shows...
AARON GLENN He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on st...
CAMILLE PAGLIA He had no idea what Matthews was doing, and he was crushed when he found out.
COLIN MURRAY He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost hims...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had t...
STIEG LARSSON There was a yell, but Magnus had already risen and closed the door before he could see Alec fall dow...
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PATRICK BIANCONE They make a big deal about that, but he didn't do anything. He (went) there to the hotel for five mi...
INFIELDER ENRIQUE WILSON Even as a ninth-grader, he was so strong. And he already had a mustache.
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CHARLES CHANDLER I can now recreate life in a way that was hidden from me, before.'A dream of form in days of thought...
OSCAR WILDE I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone ...
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OSCAR WILDE We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front.
OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
OSCAR WILDE The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
OSCAR WILDE Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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OSCAR WILDE There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
OSCAR WILDE Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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OSCAR WILDE I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of sim...
OSCAR WILDE Charity creates a multitude of sins.
OSCAR WILDE What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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OSCAR WILDE Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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OSCAR WILDE No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
OSCAR WILDE There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
OSCAR WILDE Everything popular is wrong.
OSCAR WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
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OSCAR WILDE The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin...
OSCAR WILDE We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows th...
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OSCAR WILDE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by...
OSCAR WILDE Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
OSCAR WILDE This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.
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OSCAR WILDE An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...
OSCAR WILDE Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succ...
OSCAR WILDE I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
OSCAR WILDE He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
OSCAR WILDE Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father...
OSCAR WILDE People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their...
OSCAR WILDE What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It...
OSCAR WILDE They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
OSCAR WILDE The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
OSCAR WILDE When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it...
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OSCAR WILDE They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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OSCAR WILDE Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
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OSCAR WILDE London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou...
OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
OSCAR WILDE I am dying beyond my means.
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OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
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OSCAR WILDE There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they...
OSCAR WILDE Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
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OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends up blocking his retreat.
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OSCAR WILDE I like men who have a future and women who have a past
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OSCAR WILDE Punctuality is the thief of time.
OSCAR WILDE If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
OSCAR WILDE ...music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret. This, also, is the ...
OSCAR WILDE Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, an...
OSCAR WILDE Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very m...
OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience
OSCAR WILDE Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.
OSCAR WILDE The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde.
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OSCAR WILDE What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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OSCAR WILDE Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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OSCAR WILDE He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
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OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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OSCAR WILDE To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies
OSCAR WILDE I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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OSCAR WILDE Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w...
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OSCAR WILDE Those whom the gods love grow young.
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OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum...
OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, wo...
OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re...
OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r...
OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success.
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OSCAR WILDE An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
OSCAR WILDE Work is the curse of the drinking class.
OSCAR WILDE Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
OSCAR WILDE If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
OSCAR WILDE Time is waste of money.
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OSCAR WILDE A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one'...
OSCAR WILDE All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imi...
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OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.
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OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless.
OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
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OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,...
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OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en...
OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom...
OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t...
OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
OSCAR WILDE As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d...
OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
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OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
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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 A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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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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