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In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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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 have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
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We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.
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LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.
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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
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Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
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Where your life leads you, you must go
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Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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