Oscar Wilde Quotes

History is merely gossip

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Cats are put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.

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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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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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Authority is quite degrading.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

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Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

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The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

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