Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.
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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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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
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One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
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America is one long expectoration.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.
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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
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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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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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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.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.
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They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.
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I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.