Oscar Wilde Quotes, Real Quotes, Passion Quotes

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

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He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.

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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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