Oscar Wilde Quotes, Swimming Quotes, Doubt Quotes

Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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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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Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.

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