Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nuisance Quotes

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

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Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.

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

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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