Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, People Quotes

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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Industry is the root of all ugliness.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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I'm so smart, I read and understand Hegel

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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A burnt child loves the fire.

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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