Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Vices Quotes

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.

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Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

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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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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

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The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

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