Oscar Wilde Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Giving Quotes

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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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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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.

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My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame

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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

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Most people are other people.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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