Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.
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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
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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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The only proper intoxication is conversation.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl.
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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.
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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
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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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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.