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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
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If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
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The truth is never pure and rarely simple.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
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What the hell is an oboe?
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I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong All that we know who be in jail Is that the wall is strong And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.
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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.
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Irony is wasted on the stupid
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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