Oscar Wilde Quotes, Authority Quotes

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

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I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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

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

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.

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A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

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