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Oscar Wilde: Ordinary riches can...

Oscar Wilde: Ordinary riches can...

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken...

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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: 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: Thirty-five is a...

Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a...

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free...

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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: Philanthropic people lose...

Oscar Wilde: Philanthropic people lose...

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing...

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Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists...

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Source: Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian...

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Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be...

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Source: Lord...

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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: A poet can...

Oscar Wilde: A poet can...

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Source: Pall Mall Gazette (London,...

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Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Oscar Wilde: Work is the...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Life...

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Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases...

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

Source: Phrases...

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Oscar Wilde: He would stab...

Oscar Wilde: He would stab...

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.

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Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed...

The gods bestowed on Max the gift of perpetual old age.

Source: Referring to Max...

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Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

Oscar Wilde: CECILY. When I...

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious...

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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: Wordsworth went to...

Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to...

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How sweet are...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: How sweet are...

How sweet are looks that ladies bend
On whom their favours fall!


Source: Sir...

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson: News from the...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: News from the...

News from the humming city comes to it
In sound of funeral or of marriage bells.


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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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