Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
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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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American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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The sky was pure opal now.
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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.
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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
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Every woman is wrong until she cries.
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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
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I have never killed anyone, but I have often read about some guy getting his ass taken out with great pleasure.
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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 now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.
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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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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 like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
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To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.
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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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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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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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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.