Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment of one's triumph whispers in one's ear that, after all, one is immortal.
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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.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Women treat us men like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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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.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.