Oscar Wilde Quotes

Education is an admirable thing.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

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My philosophy? I'm always right and you are wrong.

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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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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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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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