Oscar Wilde Quotes, Style Quotes, Important Quotes

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Tsǔ spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

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Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.

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