Oscar Wilde Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Community Quotes

As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.

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Just be your self. Everybody else is already taken.

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To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

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There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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Circumstances should never alter principles!

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Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to 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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It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!

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