Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
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This woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night.
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All great ideas are dangerous.
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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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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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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.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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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.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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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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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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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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I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
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A kiss may ruin a human life.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.