Oscar Wilde Quotes

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

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A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

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

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

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There is always more brass than brains in an aristocracy.

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

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If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

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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.

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

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He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

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Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

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As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

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