Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
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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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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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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.