Oscar Wilde Quotes, Common Quotes, Problem Quotes

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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Only love can keep anyone alive.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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