Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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 artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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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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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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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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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 condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
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The weather still continues charming.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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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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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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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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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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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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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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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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True friends stab you in the front.
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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.