Oscar Wilde quotes - page 24

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses. (Oscar Wilde)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

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You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things... I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

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Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

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When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me. (Oscar Wilde)

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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I drink to separate my body from my soul.

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Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

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A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

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The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

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My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

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But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. (Oscar Wilde)

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

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I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.

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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

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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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