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Examinations, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.
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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
Oscar Wilde
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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.
Oscar Wilde -
The only sin is stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
Bad manners make a journalist.
Oscar Wilde -
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
Oscar Wilde -
There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
Oscar Wilde -
Art should never be popular.
Oscar Wilde -
Education is an admirable thing.
Oscar Wilde -
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde -
A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?
Oscar Wilde -
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
Oscar Wilde
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde -
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
Oscar Wilde -
We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
Oscar Wilde -
I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde -
You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.
Oscar Wilde -
I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
Oscar Wilde
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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
Oscar Wilde -
A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
Oscar Wilde -
The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
Oscar Wilde -
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
Oscar Wilde