Oscar Wilde Quotes

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.

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To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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Bad artists always admire each others work.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

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I never change, except in my affections.

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