Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.
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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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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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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
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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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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.
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Is she such a mystery? She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. Moods don't last. It is their chief charm.
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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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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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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
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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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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.