Oscar Wilde Quotes, Intellectual Quotes, Listening Quotes

I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

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We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

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Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

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Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

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Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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Veni vidi veni iterum! (I came, I saw, I came again!)

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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To be in love is to surpass one's self.

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Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

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