Oscar Wilde Quotes

I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.

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Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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Life is like a box of terrible analogies.

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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

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There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.

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Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative.

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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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Art only begins where Imitation ends.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

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