Oscar Wilde Quotes, Calling Quotes, Half Quotes

I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.

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One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

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People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

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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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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

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There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

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When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

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