Oscar Wilde Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Self Quotes

So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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I have a simple taste, only the best.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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