Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nuisance Quotes

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters

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I never change, except in my affections.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed... This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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