Oscar Wilde Quotes
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In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.
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Progress is the realization of utopia.
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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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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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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?
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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
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The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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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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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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Time is a waste of money.
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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.