Oscar Wilde Quotes
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When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.
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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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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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I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
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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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In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
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Life is too short to be in a hurry.
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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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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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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!