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Oscar Wilde: All Art is...

Oscar Wilde: All Art is...

All Art is quite useless.

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Preface
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Benjamin Franklin: Pride breakfasted with...

Benjamin Franklin: Pride breakfasted with...

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, supped with Infamy.

Source: In...

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Oscar Wilde: Real beauty ends...

Oscar Wilde: Real beauty ends...

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins.

Source: In Webster's...

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Oscar Wilde: To get back...

Oscar Wilde: To get back...

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early or be...

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Oscar Wilde: Only people who...

Oscar Wilde: Only people who...

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed...

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Oscar Wilde: If one hears...

Oscar Wilde: If one hears...

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Source:...

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Oscar Wilde: When people talk...

Oscar Wilde: When people talk...

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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Oscar Wilde: To lose one...

Oscar Wilde: To lose one...

To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like...

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Oscar Wilde: The husbands of...

Oscar Wilde: The husbands of...

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: The Americans are...

Oscar Wilde: The Americans are...

The Americans are certainly hero-worshippers, and always take their heroes from the criminal...

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Oscar Wilde: As long as...

Oscar Wilde: As long as...

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly...

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Oscar Wilde: She tried to...

Oscar Wilde: She tried to...

She tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant.

Source:...

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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: I love London...

Oscar Wilde: I love London...

I love London society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and...

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Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Oscar Wilde: Do you really...

Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible...

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Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing...

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Oscar Wilde: It is only...

Oscar Wilde: It is only...

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Oscar Wilde: There are only...

Oscar Wilde: There are only...

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: No little lily-handed...

No little lily-handed Baronet he,
A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,
A lord of fat prize-oxen and of...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: One God, one...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: One God, one...

One God, one law, one element,
And one far-off divine event,
To which the whole creation...

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