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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
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She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
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Women are made to be loved, not understood.
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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
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A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
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And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.
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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.
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A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
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God and other artists are always a little obscure.
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You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
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When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.
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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
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I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.
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If you cannot write well, you cannot think well if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
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The unread is always better than the unreadable.
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A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.
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In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.
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