Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Opinion Quotes

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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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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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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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

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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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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

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