Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.
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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining"
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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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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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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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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.
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To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.
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What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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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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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.