Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Genius Quotes

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

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Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

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What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

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Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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When I had to fill in my immigration papers, I gave my age as 19, and my profession as genius; I added that I had nothing to declare except my talent.

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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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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 should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

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The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.

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