Oscar Wilde Quotes

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.

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I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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