Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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One should always be in love.

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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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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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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