Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery.
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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.
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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.
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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
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History is merely gossip.
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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
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Whenever I'm in doubt, I ask myself, 'What would Jesus do?' And then I realize, Jesus got crucified, so maybe his decision-making isn't all that great.
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The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
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Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.