Oscar Wilde Quotes, Air Quotes, Ideas Quotes

I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

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What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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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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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

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An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

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When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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