Oscar Wilde Quotes, People Quotes, Society Quotes

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.

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Nature is always behind the age

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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One should always be a little improbable.

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I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

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London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

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It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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And if it feels good... Feel it!

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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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