Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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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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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
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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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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.
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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.
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Education is an admirable thing.
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
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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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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves -which is the same thing nowadays.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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Ah! Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
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I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.
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Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.