Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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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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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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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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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

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There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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