Oscar Wilde Quotes

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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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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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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I'm too old to know everything

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

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St. Paul's Loomed like a bubble o'er the town.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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