Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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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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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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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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America is not a country, it is a world.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.