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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
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The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite with books my life would be livable -- any life.
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A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.
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He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
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The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
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The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune to lose both looks like carelessness.
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There is only good art and mediocre art.
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!
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She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
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Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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