Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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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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It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.
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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
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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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How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. . . . If it was only the other way! If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old! For this — for this — I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give!
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
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The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.
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And down the long and silent street,The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,Crept like a frightened girl.
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The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
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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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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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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
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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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Tread Lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.
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By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void.
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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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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!