Oscar Wilde Quotes, Morning Quotes, Work Quotes

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

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There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

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

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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