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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
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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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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.
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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
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He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
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M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
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The sin was mine I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.
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In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go others, whenever they go.
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He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
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When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
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Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?
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Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry's problem before it gets out of hand.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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