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Oscar Wilde: He to whom...

Oscar Wilde: He to whom...

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he...

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Oscar Wilde: On the whole,...

Oscar Wilde: On the whole,...

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle,...

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Oscar Wilde: In a very...

Oscar Wilde: In a very...

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

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Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Oscar Wilde: Where there is...

Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only...

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Oscar Wilde: We have really...

Oscar Wilde: We have really...

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is...

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Oscar Wilde: I have nothing...

Oscar Wilde: I have nothing...

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Source: Comment, 3 Jan 1882, at the New...

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Oscar Wilde: It was a...

Oscar Wilde: It was a...

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as...

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Oscar Wilde: I know, of...

Oscar Wilde: I know, of...

I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the...

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Oscar Wilde: If they have...

Oscar Wilde: If they have...

If they have not opened the eyes of the blind, they have at least given great encouragement to the short-sighted, and...

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Oscar Wilde: If you are...

Oscar Wilde: If you are...

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

Source: Gwendolen,...

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Alexander Pope: So much they...

Alexander Pope: So much they...

So much they scorn the crowd, that if the throng
By chance go right, they purposely go...

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Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Alexander Pope: Not louder shrieks...

Not louder shrieks to pitying heav'n are cast,
When husbands, or when lap-dogs breathe their...

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Alexander Pope: A man should...

Alexander Pope: A man should...

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser...

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Alexander Pope: A wit with...

Alexander Pope: A wit with...

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Source: The Dunciad, Bk iv. 90
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Alexander Pope: As some to...

Alexander Pope: As some to...

As some to church repair,
Not for the doctrine, but the music there.


Source: An...

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Alexander Pope: Alike reserved to...

Alexander Pope: Alike reserved to...

Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend;
Dreading e'en fools, by...

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Alexander Pope: But thousands die...

Alexander Pope: But thousands die...

But thousands die without or this or that,
Die, and endow a college, or a cat:
To some, indeed, Heaven grants...

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Alexander Pope: Die and endow...

Alexander Pope: Die and endow...

Die and endow a college or a cat.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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