Oscar Wilde Quotes, Enemy Quotes

The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.

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He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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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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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

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Youth is the only thing worth having.

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I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.

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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

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