Oscar Wilde Quotes, Important Quotes, Forget Quotes

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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