Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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Tread Lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.
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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
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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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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.
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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes.
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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'.
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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.