Oscar Wilde Quotes

To be popular I must be mediocre.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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Well, I can’t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe." "You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can’t you?" He shook his head. "To night she is Imogen," he answered, "and tomorrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.

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The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

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

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Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

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Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

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