Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sports Quotes, Special Quotes

When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

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

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As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

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Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.

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Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself.

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You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information." "I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand." "Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?" "I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."

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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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Only the shallow know themselves.

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