Oscar Wilde Quotes
- Oscar Wilde Quotes
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
- Oscar Wilde Quotes
"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
- Oscar Wilde Quotes
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
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"Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable"
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her"
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"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
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"They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever."
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"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
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Who, being loved, is poor?"
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
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"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
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"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
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"Everything popular is wrong."
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"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
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"Only the shallow know themselves."
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"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
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"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
- Oscar Wilde Quotes
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
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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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"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness."
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"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities."
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"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
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“The heart was made to be broken”
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“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution”
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“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
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“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
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“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”
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“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”
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“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
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“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
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