Oscar Wilde Quotes, Years Quotes, Two Quotes

The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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All art is quite useless.

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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

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The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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