Oscar Wilde Quotes
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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The weather still continues charming.
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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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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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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me.
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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
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Always keep love in your heart.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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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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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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Circumstances should never alter principles!
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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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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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.