Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
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Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
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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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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.
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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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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
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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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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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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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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.
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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.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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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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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.
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Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.