Oscar Wilde Quotes, Music Quotes, Lying Quotes

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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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

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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 is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

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Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

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Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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Sphinxes without secrets.

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Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

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Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

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A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

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