Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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When a voice behind me whispered low,'That fellow's got to swing.'
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.'
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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The final mystery is oneself.