Oscar Wilde Quotes
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.
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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.
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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
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Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.
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Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.
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She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.