Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Vanity Quotes

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.

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I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

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I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

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