Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.
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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
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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 man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.
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No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
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Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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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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Life is like a box of terrible analogies...
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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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You are Beautiful when you are happy.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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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 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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Men become old, but they never become good.
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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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Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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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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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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Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.
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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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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.