Oscar Wilde Quotes

One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.

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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

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Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

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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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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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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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To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

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And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

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Only the shallow know themselves.

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

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The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

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More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

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I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

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There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

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Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes

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I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.

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It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

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