Oscar Wilde Quotes
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Something was dead in each of us,And what was dead was Hope.
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.
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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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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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Things last either too long, or not long enough.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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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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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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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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Progress is the realization of utopia.
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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
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To be premature is to be perfect.
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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
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There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.
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No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.