Oscar Wilde Quotes, Stars Quotes, Drinking Quotes

Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

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True love is just like regular love, but with more truth.

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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.

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The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own.

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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

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There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.

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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

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