Oscar Wilde Quotes, Witty Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If you want to be witty, say what you think at all times

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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