Oscar Wilde Quotes
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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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Talent borrows, genius steals!
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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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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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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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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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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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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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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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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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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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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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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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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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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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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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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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.