Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Always be a little unexpected.
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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.
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In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
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All bad art is the result of good intentions.
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Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism...
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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,None knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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The world has been made by fools that men should live in it.
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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.