Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid.
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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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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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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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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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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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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.