Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Lo! with a little rodI did but touch the honey of romance -And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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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 His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.
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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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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 worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.