Oscar Wilde Quotes
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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.
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The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.
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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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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 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 see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.
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Genius is born-not paid.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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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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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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Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
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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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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
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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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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.