Oscar Wilde Quotes

The world belongs to the discontented.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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To live in this world is a rare thing; most people just exist.

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The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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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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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

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I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

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It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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To define is to limit.

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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. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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