Oscar Wilde quotes - page 21

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair. (Oscar Wilde)

Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

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Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

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The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.

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And the wild regrets and the bloody sweats None knew so well as I That he who lives more lives than one, More deaths than one shall die.

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What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

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To be good is to be in harmony with ones self. Discord is to be forces to be in harmony with others.

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When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also. (Oscar Wilde)

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah there is the sting of life.

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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

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The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

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Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.

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The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women. . . merely adored.

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When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. (Oscar Wilde)

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

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There are two ways of disliking poetry one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

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Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.

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To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

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Oscar Wilde

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

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