Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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