Oscar Wilde Quotes

Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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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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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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

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It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.

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