Oscar Wilde Quotes, Learning Quotes, Men Quotes

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.

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There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

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A mutual misunderstanding.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

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I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

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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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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

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