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Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.
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I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
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My wish isn't to mean everything to everyone but something to someone.
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A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
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Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
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Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
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Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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