Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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The weather still continues charming.
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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
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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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Circumstances should never alter principles!