Oscar Wilde Quotes, Names Quotes, Looks Quotes

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

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Where your life leads you, you must go

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

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Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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Genius is born-not paid

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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

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