Oscar Wilde Quotes, Strong Quotes, Wicked Quotes

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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To be popular I must be mediocre.

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There's no sin but stupidity.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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

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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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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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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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The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!

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