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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Man is many things, but he is not rational.
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Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.
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The moon in her chariot of pearl
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.
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The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.
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A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
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The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
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We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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To be in love is to surpass one's self.
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We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
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One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.
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Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
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Fantastic shadows of birds
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
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