Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.

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The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

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Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

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I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

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A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him.

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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

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Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

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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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