Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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I'm too old to know everything.
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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.
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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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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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What you read when you don't have to...
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Education is an admirable thing.
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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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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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I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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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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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
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But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.
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The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.
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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.