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How clever you are, my dear You never mean a single word you say. (Oscar Wilde)
Skepticism is the beginning of Faith. View quote
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In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. View quote
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It is confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. View quote
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Gossip is charming History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. View quote
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Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. View quote
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When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance. View quote
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The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster. View quote
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Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. View quote
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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them. View quote
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They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. (Oscar Wilde)
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. View quote
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution. View quote
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. View quote
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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. View quote
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There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. View quote
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched. View quote
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It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. View quote
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America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. View quote
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I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. View quote
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You will always love, and you will always be loved. (Oscar Wilde)
To be popular one must be a mediocrity. View quote
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture. View quote
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. View quote
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The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole. 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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