Oscar Wilde Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Noses Quotes

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Punctuality is the thief of time

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A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.

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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

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Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent.

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If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.

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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

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