Oscar Wilde Quotes

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

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