Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Lying Quotes

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.

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Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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