Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
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The secret of life is in art.
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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
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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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To many, no doubt, he will seem to be somewhat blatant and bumptious, but we prefer to regard him as being simply British.
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It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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And it is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologise to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.