Oscar Wilde Quotes

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid

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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.

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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.

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People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

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A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.

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

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

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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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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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