Oscar Wilde Quotes

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.

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It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery

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Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

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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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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

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Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

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Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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