Oscar Wilde Quotes, People Quotes, Honest Quotes

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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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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The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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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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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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Life would be dull without them.

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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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