Oscar Wilde Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Knowing Quotes

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

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Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

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The world belongs to the discontented.

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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.

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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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There is nothing that art cannot express.

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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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