Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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Any place you love is the world to you.
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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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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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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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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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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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The weather still continues charming.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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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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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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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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True friends stab you in the front.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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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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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 condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!