Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.
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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
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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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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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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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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
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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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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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Philanthropy has become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.