Oscar Wilde Quotes

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

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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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Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

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