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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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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.
Oscar Wilde
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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
Oscar Wilde -
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Oscar Wilde -
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.
Oscar Wilde -
Ah! Somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
Oscar Wilde -
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Oscar Wilde -
Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.
Oscar Wilde -
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
Oscar Wilde
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
Oscar Wilde -
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
Oscar Wilde -
Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
Oscar Wilde -
The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.
Oscar Wilde
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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.
Oscar Wilde -
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
Oscar Wilde -
Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
Oscar Wilde -
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Oscar Wilde