Oscar Wilde Quotes
People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
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Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.