Oscar Wilde Quotes

[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

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It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.

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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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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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That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

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I am happy in my prison of passion

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them.

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The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

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Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

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It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

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