Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The great events of the world take place in the brain...
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Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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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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All great ideas are dangerous.
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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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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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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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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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America is not a country, it is a world.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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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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It was only in the theatre that I lived.
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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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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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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.