Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.
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Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
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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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Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
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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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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.