Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

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The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.

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The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!

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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

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I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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