Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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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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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 His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
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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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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
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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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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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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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Life is a great disappointment.
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I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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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.