Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Arguing Quotes

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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Talent borrows, genius steals!

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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To be good is to be in harmony with one's self.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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