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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 one pays...

Oscar Wilde: When one pays...

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

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Oscar Wilde: I like persons...

Oscar Wilde: I like persons...

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the...

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Oscar Wilde: I'm sure I...

Oscar Wilde: I'm sure I...

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like...

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Oscar Wilde: No publisher should...

Oscar Wilde: No publisher should...

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the...

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Oscar Wilde: People who love...

Oscar Wilde: People who love...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I...

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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: Genius lasts longer...

Oscar Wilde: Genius lasts longer...

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate...

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Oscar Wilde: It is a...

Oscar Wilde: It is a...

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never...

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Oscar Wilde: One can always...

Oscar Wilde: One can always...

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Source: Lord Henry,...

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Oscar Wilde: They are horribly...

Oscar Wilde: They are horribly...

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are...

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Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

Oscar Wilde: And now, I...

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Source: Sipping champagne on his...

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Oscar Wilde: I like to...

Oscar Wilde: I like to...

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

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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: It is always...

Oscar Wilde: It is always...

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Source: Vivian, in The Decay of Lying ...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: It little profits...

It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Matched with an aged wife,...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I have fought...

I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true;
I have only done my duty as a man is bound to...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long<br>That...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Jewels five-words long
That...

Jewels five-words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all Time
Sparkle for...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Man for the...

Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: O great and...

O great and sane and simple race of brutes
That own no lust because they have no law!


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