Oscar Wilde Quotes, Believe Quotes, Essence Quotes

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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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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True friends stab you in the front.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.

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