Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell…

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

A kiss may ruin a human life.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

The secret of life is in art.

The secret of life is in art.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never...

Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never...

The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the...

The man of wisdom has no perplexity; the man of humanity has no worry; the...

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of...

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power

The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power