Oscar Wilde quotes - page 17

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose. (Oscar Wilde)
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. View quote
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable. View quote
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You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel? View quote
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. View quote
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It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. View quote
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My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression. View quote
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A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night. View quote
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When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself. View quote
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Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them! View quote
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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. (Oscar Wilde)
Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot. View quote
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Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is. View quote
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He hasn't a single redeeming vice. View quote
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. View quote
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The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin. View quote
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The supreme vice is shallowness. View quote
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Duty is what one expects from others. View quote
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any. View quote
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. View quote
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. (Oscar Wilde)
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman. View quote
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. View quote
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The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. View quote
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Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. View quote
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Oscar Wilde

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Occupation: Irish Poet
Born: October 16, 1854
Died: November 30, 1900
Quotes count: 1197
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