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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.
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The weather still continues charming.
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
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The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.
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If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor penury is the luxury of the rich.
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Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only faith, but on one side only devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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Art persists, it timelessly continues.
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The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
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I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.
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Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.
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On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
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Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
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