Oscar Wilde Quotes
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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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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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.
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Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb a the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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No gentleman ever has any money.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.
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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
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We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.
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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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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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To define is to limit.
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Life, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.