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Oscar Wilde Inspirational Quotes (1051)

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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
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It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
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The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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It is what we fear that happens to us.
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Where your life leads you, you must go
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After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
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A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
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My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.
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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
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Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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America is one long expectoration.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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