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Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

Alexander Pope: While pensive poets...

While pensive poets painful vigils keep
Sleepless themselves to give their readers...

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Oscar Wilde: To make men...

Oscar Wilde: To make men...

To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

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Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is the...

Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is the...

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

Source: 'An...

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Oscar Wilde: As for the...

Oscar Wilde: As for the...

As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire...

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Oscar Wilde: Society often forgives...

Oscar Wilde: Society often forgives...

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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Oscar Wilde: Few parents nowadays...

Oscar Wilde: Few parents nowadays...

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is...

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Oscar Wilde: A dreamer is...

Oscar Wilde: A dreamer is...

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest...

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Ogden Nash: I have an...

Ogden Nash: I have an...

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to...

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Oscar Wilde: Bad manners make...

Oscar Wilde: Bad manners make...

Bad manners make a journalist.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Oscar Wilde: This morning I...

Oscar Wilde: This morning I...

This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

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Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

Oscar Wilde: To love oneself...

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Source: Lord Goring, in An...

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Oscar Wilde: Society exists only...

Oscar Wilde: Society exists only...

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

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Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the...

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is...

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Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

Oscar Wilde: The sign of...

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

Source: Lecture...

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Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man...

Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man...

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

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Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

Oscar Wilde: The longer I...

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for...

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Oscar Wilde: There is something...

Oscar Wilde: There is something...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Oscar Wilde: Musical people are...

Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is...

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Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man...

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our...

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Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

Oscar Wilde: I have invented...

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the...

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