Oscar Wilde Quotes, Men Quotes, Absurd Quotes

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.

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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

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The only proper intoxication is conversation.

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The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

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Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.

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One should absorb the color of life.

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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

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When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

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