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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
Oscar Wilde -
Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
Oscar Wilde
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The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
Oscar Wilde -
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
Oscar Wilde -
Only love can keep anyone alive...
Oscar Wilde -
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde -
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
Oscar Wilde -
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
Oscar Wilde
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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Oscar Wilde -
Only good questions deserve good answers.
Oscar Wilde -
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Oscar Wilde -
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde -
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Oscar Wilde -
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Oscar Wilde -
You never mean a single word you say.
Oscar Wilde -
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde -
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde -
It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.
Oscar Wilde -
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
Oscar Wilde
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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Oscar Wilde -
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
Oscar Wilde