Oscar Wilde Quotes, Country Quotes, Lying Quotes

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.

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One's only real life is the life one never leads.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

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Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented.

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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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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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He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

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I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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