Oscar Wilde quotes - page 27

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? (Oscar Wilde)
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. View quote
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Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. View quote
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One world was not enough for two like me and you. View quote
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Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying. View quote
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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots. View quote
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world. View quote
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I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. View quote
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It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming. View quote
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A burnt child loves the fire. View quote
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If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern) (Oscar Wilde)
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. View quote
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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. View quote
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I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. View quote
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The curves of your lips rewrite history. View quote
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And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. View quote
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Circumstances should never alter principles! View quote
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What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. View quote
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. View quote
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Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. View quote
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art. (Oscar Wilde)
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. View quote
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What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. View quote
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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. View quote
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Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. 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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