Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
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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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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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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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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 think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
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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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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
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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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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?
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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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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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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
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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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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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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.
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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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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.
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I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.