Oscar Wilde Quotes, Perfection Quotes, Laziness Quotes

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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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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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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