Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nature Quotes, Errors Quotes

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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It is what we fear that happens to us.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

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I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

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Wisdom comes with winters

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

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Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

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Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.

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