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Oscar Wilde: What is said...

Oscar Wilde: What is said...

What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.

Source: De Profundis,...

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Oscar Wilde: There is no...

Oscar Wilde: There is no...

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

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Oscar Wilde: Though one can...

Oscar Wilde: Though one can...

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.

Source: The American...

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Oscar Wilde: I never saw...

Oscar Wilde: I never saw...

I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the...

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Oscar Wilde: The true critic...

Oscar Wilde: The true critic...

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no...

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Oscar Wilde: Other people are...

Oscar Wilde: Other people are...

Other people are quite dreadful.
The only possible society is oneself.


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Oscar Wilde: From the point...

Oscar Wilde: From the point...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life,...

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Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

Oscar Wilde: What is mind...

What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?

Source: Gilbert, in The Critic...

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Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

Oscar Wilde: There is nothing...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything...

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Oscar Wilde: The exquisite art...

Oscar Wilde: The exquisite art...

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can...

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Thornton Wilder: My advice to...

Thornton Wilder: My advice to...

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice-cream while it's on your plate, - that's my...

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Oscar Wilde: Men become old,...

Oscar Wilde: Men become old,...

Men become old, but they never become good.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Oscar Wilde: The commonest thing...

Oscar Wilde: The commonest thing...

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: The secret of...

Oscar Wilde: The secret of...

The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Source: In...

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Oscar Wilde: It is absurd...

Oscar Wilde: It is absurd...

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress....

Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than...

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Oscar Wilde: Every man of...

Oscar Wilde: Every man of...

Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of...

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Ogden Nash: The only way...

Ogden Nash: The only way...

The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions
Is by their actions.


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Ogden Nash: I think remorse...

Ogden Nash: I think remorse...

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Source: A Clean...

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Ogden Nash: One man's remorse...

Ogden Nash: One man's remorse...

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Source: A Clean Conscience Never...

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