Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
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Truth is independent of facts always.
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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 proper school to learn art is not life but art.
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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments.
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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 trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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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Never so sweet a repast as the Reaper's when you tread upon the threshold of a Quiznos.
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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.
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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 English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.
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You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel.
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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
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Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of therapy.