Oscar Wilde Quotes, Clever Quotes, Sick Quotes

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

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To define is to limit.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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