Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.

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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

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But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

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