Oscar Wilde Quotes
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All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
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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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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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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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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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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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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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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!
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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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Whenever life sucks, remember you're going to die someday.
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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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Everything that is popular is wrong.
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And if it feels good... Feel it!
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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.