Oscar Wilde Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Silly Quotes

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Art never expresses anything but itself.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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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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