Oscar Wilde Quotes, Progress Quotes, Realization Quotes

Progress is the realization of utopia.

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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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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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

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Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.

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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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