Oscar Wilde Quotes

All women are rebels.

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When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

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We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

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The sky was pure opal now.

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And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand.

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Time is a waste of money.

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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

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So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

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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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