Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nuisance Quotes

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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When I was young, I was no one. Now, I'm worldwilde.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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

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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Prism! Where is that baby?

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For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

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Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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