Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening.
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
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The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .