Oscar Wilde quotes - page 18

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written. (Oscar Wilde)
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram. View quote
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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. View quote
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I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. View quote
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We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken. View quote
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Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so. View quote
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And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine. View quote
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. View quote
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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. View quote
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. View quote
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Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. (Oscar Wilde)
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. View quote
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. View quote
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No gentleman ever has any money. View quote
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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not. View quote
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities. View quote
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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance - And must I lose a soul's inheritance? View quote
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little. View quote
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If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. View quote
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do. View quote
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Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance. (Oscar Wilde)
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. View quote
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good. View quote
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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play. View quote
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A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. 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: 1196
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