Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hands Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

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In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

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It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

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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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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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