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Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas”

“It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

“Oh, brothers! I dont care for brothers. My elder brother wont die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like youre ordinary.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”