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A truly good woman comes in only two types: One who knows nothing and the other who knows everything.
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Oscar Wilde
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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
Oscar Wilde -
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
Oscar Wilde -
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.
Oscar Wilde
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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Most people are boring and stupid.
Oscar Wilde -
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Oscar Wilde -
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
Oscar Wilde -
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde -
Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius is born-not paid.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
Oscar Wilde -
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
Oscar Wilde -
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
Oscar Wilde -
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
Oscar Wilde
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Examinations, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
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The only sin is stupidity.
Oscar Wilde