Oscar Wilde Quotes, Names Quotes, Looks Quotes

You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest.

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Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

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Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography.

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Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

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The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

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The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.

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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.

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

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Hard work is amply the refuge of those who have nothing to do.

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