Oscar Wilde Quotes

The world belongs to the discontented.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.

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I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development.

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Outcasts always mourn.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

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What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?

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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

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

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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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Sphinxes without secrets.

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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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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

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Live the wonderful life that is in you.

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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.

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