Oscar Wilde Quotes

The only thing worse than quoting me, is not quoting me

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The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

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Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

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but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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Some people always know the price, but not the value

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Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

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I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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