Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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.
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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it.
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It is only the sacred things that are worth touching.
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Punctuality is the thief of time.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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Nature constantly imitates art.
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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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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 recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them...
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.
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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.