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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
Oscar Wilde -
Nature is always behind the age.
Oscar Wilde -
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
Oscar Wilde -
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
Oscar Wilde -
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde -
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
Oscar Wilde
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
Oscar Wilde -
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
Oscar Wilde -
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde -
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Oscar Wilde -
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde -
The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal.
Oscar Wilde
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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.
Oscar Wilde -
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde -
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde -
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
Oscar Wilde -
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Oscar Wilde -
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Oscar Wilde -
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
Oscar Wilde -
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde -
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
Oscar Wilde