Oscar Wilde Quotes

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

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Always be a little unexpected.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly? Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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