Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
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You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.
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We have little time and lots to do, lets take time for everything we do.
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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.
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Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.
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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it.
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
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There is nothing in the whole world so unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience.
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic.
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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee.