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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
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I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
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Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
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Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
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There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.
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One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
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Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
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Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
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I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
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I was wrong. God's law is only Love.
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What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
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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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Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
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Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Nothing worth knowing can be taught.
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Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
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