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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
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I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.
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Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that.
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LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably.
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I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
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I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
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However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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Every thing to be true must become a religion.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
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Live the wonderful life that is in you.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
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