Oscar Wilde Quotes, Serious Things Quotes, Sincere Quotes

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

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Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

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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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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

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