Oscar Wilde Quotes

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

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Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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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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A mask tells us more than a face.

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Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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God grant me the serenity to accept that people are ignorant, the courage to uphold the law when I'm hostile, & the wisdom to realize that murder is illegal.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

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