Oscar Wilde Quotes

The world belongs to the discontented.

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Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

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She doth mean the earth to me! By earth, I actually mean dust.

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A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

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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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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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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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