Oscar Wilde Quotes, Class Quotes, Judging Quotes

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

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Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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What the hell is an oboe?

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Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

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Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

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