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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.
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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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Lord Darlington (LD): I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules. Lady Windemere (LW): If we had 'hard-and-fast rules' we would find life much simpler. LD: You allow of no exceptions? LW: None! LD: Ah, what a fascinating Puritan you are, LW. LW: The adjective was unnecessary, LD.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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A mask tells us more than a face.
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Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
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Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut the pessimist the hole!
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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
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One's dreams must be big enough so as not to lose sight of them.
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Art only begins where Imitation ends.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit touch it and the bloom is gone.
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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
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Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
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