Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.