Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mad Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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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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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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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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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

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