Never regret thy fall,
O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all
Is never to feel the burning light.
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
Oscar WildeTag: women
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!
Oscar WildeThe secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Oscar WildeTag: youth
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar WildeIt takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Oscar WildeTag: love
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Oscar WildeTag: memory
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar WildeTag: humor reading literature algernon
Prism! Where is that baby?
Oscar WildeLet those who have not walked as we have done,
In the red fire of passion, those whose lives
Are dull and colourless, in a word let those,
If any such there be, who have not loved,
Cast stones against you
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