Oscar Wilde Quotes

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I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

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On George Bernard Shaw An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

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To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

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The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

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I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

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I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

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He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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Newspapers, even, have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

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When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

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We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

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Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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

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Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

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I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

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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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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it

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He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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