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Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
Oscar Wilde
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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.
Oscar Wilde -
Genius is born-not paid.
Oscar Wilde -
Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
Oscar Wilde -
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Oscar Wilde -
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Oscar Wilde -
Most people are boring and stupid.
Oscar Wilde
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The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
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Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination.
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What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
Oscar Wilde -
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun.
Oscar Wilde
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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces.
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Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.
Oscar Wilde -
Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
Oscar Wilde -
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
Oscar Wilde -
Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
Oscar Wilde -
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Oscar Wilde
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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde