Oscar Wilde Quotes

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.

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