Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Mind Quotes

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

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A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

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"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane." "It never is, sir." "Lane, you're a perfect pessimist." "I do my best to give satisfaction, sir."

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I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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