Oscar Wilde Quotes, Food Quotes, Wine Quotes

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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Everything popular is wrong.

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Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

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Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

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Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.

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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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Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.

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A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

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A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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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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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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