Oscar Wilde Quotes, Spheres Quotes, Different Quotes

Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

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The universe is God. I am God so that means I am the universe.

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

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Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

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Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.

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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

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Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless." "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." "I say it’s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

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