Oscar Wilde Quotes

Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.

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The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

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What the hell is an oboe?

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