Oscar Wilde Quotes

History is only gossip.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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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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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

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Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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