Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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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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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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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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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.
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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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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
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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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The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.