Oscar Wilde Quotes, Nuisance Quotes

Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

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Nothing worth learning can ever be taught

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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

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I never change, except in my affections.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

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God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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