Oscar Wilde Quotes

Men become old, but they never become good.

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It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

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America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

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Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

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I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

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Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.

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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

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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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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it.

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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

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