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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
Oscar Wilde
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde -
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde -
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
Oscar Wilde -
To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
Oscar Wilde -
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Oscar Wilde -
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Oscar Wilde
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
Oscar Wilde -
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde -
Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
Oscar Wilde -
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde -
This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
Oscar Wilde
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
Oscar Wilde -
People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.
Oscar Wilde -
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
A kiss may ruin a human life.
Oscar Wilde -
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Oscar Wilde
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde -
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
Oscar Wilde -
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde