Oscar Wilde Quotes, Wise Quotes, Understanding Quotes

They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

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Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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