Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one's nerves—which is the same thing nowadays.

About Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

—Oscar Wilde

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon, I put it back in again.

—Oscar Wilde

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Who, being loved, is poor?

—Oscar Wilde

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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

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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

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We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we’re both thinking the same thing.

—Laurie Faria Stolarz in White Is for Magic

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Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you’ll regret and still, you do them.

—C.K. Kelly Martin in I Know It’s Over

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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

—Ingrid Bergman

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In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.