Oscar Wilde Quotes, Long Quotes, People Quotes

The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.

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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

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

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Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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