Oscar Wilde Quotes, Taken Quotes, Too Much Quotes

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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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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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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In married life three is company and two none.

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I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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Progress is the realization of utopia.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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