Oscar Wilde Quotes

No gentleman ever has any money.

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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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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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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

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The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

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The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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