Oscar Wilde Quotes

Love is easily killed.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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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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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves

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Hearts Live By Being Wounded

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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

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