Oscar Wilde Quotes, Race Quotes

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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True friends stab you in the front.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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