Oscar Wilde Quotes, Speak Quotes, Should Quotes

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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She lives the poetry she cannot write.

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Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you.

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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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What fire does not destroy, it hardens

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The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

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My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.

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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

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Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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