Oscar Wilde Quotes, Art Quotes, Essentials Quotes

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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You know what a woman's curiosity is.

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The supreme vice is shallowness.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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All great ideas are dangerous.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

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I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

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Irony is wasted on the stupid

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I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to.

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

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I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

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If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

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