Oscar Wilde Quotes

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I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.

Oscar Wilde
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

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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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There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

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Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

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It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

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Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

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If the country doesn't go to the dogs or the Radicals, we shall have you Prime Minister, some day.

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The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

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To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

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Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

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I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

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

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To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

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And then Nature is so indifferent, so unappreciative. Whenever I am walking in the park here, I always feel that I am no more to her than the cattle that browse on the slope, or the burdock that blooms in the ditch.

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Do you want to know the great drama of my life? It's that I have put my genius into my life; all I've put into my works is my talent.

Oscar Wilde