Oscar Wilde Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Mistake Quotes

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

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The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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

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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

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