Oscar Wilde Quotes

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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Art should never be popular.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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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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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

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The secret of life is in art.

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Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

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