Oscar Wilde Quotes, Race Quotes

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work's the curse of the drinking classes.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

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

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

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

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

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It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

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To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

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