Oscar Wilde Quotes, Age Quotes

Nature is always behind the age

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

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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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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that.

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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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