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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. (Oscar Wilde)
One should always be a little improbable. View quote
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. View quote
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Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. View quote
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Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror. View quote
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After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass 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. View quote
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that. View quote
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What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit. View quote
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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. View quote
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. View quote
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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. (Oscar Wilde)
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. View quote
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One's only real life is the life one never leads. View quote
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality. View quote
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She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it. View quote
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To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. View quote
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. View quote
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I live constantly in the fear of not being misunderstood. View quote
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There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well. View quote
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Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. View quote
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Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. (Oscar Wilde)
Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us. View quote
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It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. View quote
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And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal. View quote
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property. 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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