Oscar Wilde Quotes, Genius Quotes

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

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A kiss may ruin a human life

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

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I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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