Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
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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 problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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I don't want money. It is only people who pay their bills who want that, and I never pay mine.
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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Art should never be popular.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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Veni vidi veni iterum! I came, I saw, I came again!
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.