Quote by Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that lit

I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. – Oscar Wilde

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Hope
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position. – Oscar Wilde

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Men
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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A few amber clouds floated in the sky without a breath of air to move them. The horizon was of a fine golden tint, changing gradually into a pure apple-green, and from that into the deep blue of the mid-heaven. – Washington Irving, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

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Sky & Clouds

The stars, which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields of heaven. – Philip James Bailey

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Sky & Clouds

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. – William Gibson

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Sky & Clouds

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke

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Sky & Clouds

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Everything youve learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. Theres not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. – Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

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