Oscar Wilde Quotes, Hands Quotes, Ordinary Quotes

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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Everything that is popular is wrong.

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

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Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

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The face of the enemy frightens me only when I see how much it resembles me

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I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

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As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

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Duty is what one expects from others.

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There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

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Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

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