Oscar Wilde Quotes, Names Quotes, Cowardice Quotes

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!

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There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

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Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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The only real people are the people who never existed.

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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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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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