Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
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Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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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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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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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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Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.
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To be popular I must be mediocre.
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle.
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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.
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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
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Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.