Oscar Wilde Quotes

It was only in the theatre that I lived

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

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I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Life would be dull without them.

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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

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An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

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In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.

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And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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Every woman is wrong until she cries.

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If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

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I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

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There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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