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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
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Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
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Don't feed the trolls nothing fuels them so much.
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].
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Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
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No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.
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A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
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The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.
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Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
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If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
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It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
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We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
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