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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood.

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Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

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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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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite.

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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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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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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

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The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end.

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