Oscar Wilde quotes - page 26

I don't write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. (Oscar Wilde)

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

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Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

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The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

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Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

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Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. (Oscar Wilde)

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

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Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

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His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

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My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.

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When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America.

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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five. (Oscar Wilde)

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

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I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

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we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others.

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Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

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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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