Oscar Wilde Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Listening Quotes

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.

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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

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