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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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 map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
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He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
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But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
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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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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
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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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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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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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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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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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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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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.
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In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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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.