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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
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Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
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Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.
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As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
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Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
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The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
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Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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Youth is the only thing worth having.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art.
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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
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If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
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Bad artists always admire each others work.
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A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
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