Oscar Wilde Quotes, Parent Quotes, Sin Quotes

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

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Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.

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California is an Italy without its art.

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The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

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