Oscar Wilde Quotes, Real Quotes, Passion Quotes

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

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An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.

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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.

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To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

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I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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