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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
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Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
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The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden.
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.
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For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
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A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
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Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
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I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
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One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
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The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
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Sphinxes without secrets.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
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