Quote by Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. – Oscar Wilde

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects. – Oscar Wilde

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Love
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Portraits
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Pray dont talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. – Oscar Wilde

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Weather
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A great many mens gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations its very easy to surprise people. – Pamela Anderson

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. – Walt Whitman

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

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When one reads a poet in January, it is as lovely as when one goes to walk in June. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. – Oscar Wilde

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Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen. – Robert Rodriguez

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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of whats going on. – William S. Burroughs

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