Oscar Wilde Quotes

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Love is a form of heroism that never goes out of date.

Oscar Wilde
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead.

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

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

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Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.

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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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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

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The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

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When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

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When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

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Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

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Paradox though it may seem—and paradoxes are always dangerous things—it is none the less true that Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.

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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

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There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

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Lord Goring: Now I'm gonna give you some good advice.
Mrs. Cheveley: Pray don't. You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening, Act III.

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There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

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I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

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