Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mean Quotes, Exercise Quotes

All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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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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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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