Oscar Wilde Quotes, Knowing Quotes, Giving Quotes

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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It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight.

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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

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If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

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Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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