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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
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In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
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The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
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[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
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The critic has to educate the public the artist has to educate the critic.
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Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
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People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
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When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
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I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Most people are other people.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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