Oscar Wilde Quotes, Strong Quotes, Wicked Quotes

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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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!

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Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

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The great events of the world take place in the brain.

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

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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

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I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down.

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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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To be premature is to be perfect

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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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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