Oscar Wilde Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Ethics Quotes

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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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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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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