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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

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Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

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Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

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Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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Men become old, but they never become good.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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