Oscar Wilde Quotes
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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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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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning. He used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
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America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
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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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Men become old, but they never become good.
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Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.
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We always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.