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Oscar Wilde: In matters of...

Oscar Wilde: In matters of...

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

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Oscar Wilde: The good ended...

Oscar Wilde: The good ended...

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

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Oscar Wilde: Women represent the...

Oscar Wilde: Women represent the...

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over...

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Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply...

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Oscar Wilde: Starvation, and not...

Oscar Wilde: Starvation, and not...

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Source: The Soul of Man...

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Oscar Wilde: I was saying,...

Oscar Wilde: I was saying,...

I was saying, continued the Rocket, I was saying - What was I saying? You were talking about yourself, replied the...

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Oscar Wilde: The more one...

Oscar Wilde: The more one...

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful...

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Oscar Wilde: It is very...

Oscar Wilde: It is very...

It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false...

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Oscar Wilde: If property had...

Oscar Wilde: If property had...

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we...

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Oscar Wilde: The public is...

Oscar Wilde: The public is...

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

Oscar Wilde: The mere existence...

The mere existence of conscience, that faculty of which people prate so much nowadays, and are so ignorantly proud, is...

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Oscar Wilde: As long as...

Oscar Wilde: As long as...

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will...

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Oscar Wilde: No, Ernest, don't...

Oscar Wilde: No, Ernest, don't...

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...

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Benjamin Franklin: He that waits...

Benjamin Franklin: He that waits...

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Source: In Correct Quotes...

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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: No artist has...

Oscar Wilde: No artist has...

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...

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Oscar Wilde: Dullness is the...

Oscar Wilde: Dullness is the...

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

Source: Phrases and Philosophies for...

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Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are...

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely...

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Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the...

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the...

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Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

Oscar Wilde: A mask tells...

A mask tells us more than a face.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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