Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Art never expresses anything but itself.
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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
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The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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Common sense is the enemy of Romance.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.