Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?
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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.
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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.
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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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You know what a woman's curiosity is.
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.
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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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For Man's grim Justice goes its way,And will not swerve aside:It slays the weak, it slays the strong,It has a deadly stride:With iron heel it slays the strong,The monstrous parricide!
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.
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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
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I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.