Oscar Wilde Quotes

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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