Oscar Wilde Quotes
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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Love is easily killed.
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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Wisdom comes with winters.
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Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
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I drink to separate my body from my soul.
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden...
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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Time is a waste of money.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.