Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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No, I never ever considered myself attractive.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.
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Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.
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If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
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The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.
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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
