Oscar Wilde Quotes, Authority Quotes

Authority is quite degrading.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it

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Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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Don't feed the trolls; nothing fuels them so much.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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