Oscar Wilde Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Character Quotes

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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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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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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