Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl.
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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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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 mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other-by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.
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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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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
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The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.
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Credit is a young man's capital.
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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
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Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin.
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.