Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Occupation Quotes

LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done.

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Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

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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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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

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Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

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Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

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