Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.
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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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I can believe anything as long as it is incredible.
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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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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.
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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
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The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there; Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate And the Warder is Despair.
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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
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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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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.