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Oscar Wilde: One can survive...

Oscar Wilde: One can survive...

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good...

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Oscar Wilde: He rides in...

Oscar Wilde: He rides in...

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least...

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Oscar Wilde: Romance should never...

Oscar Wilde: Romance should never...

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a...

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Oscar Wilde: Ah well, I...

Oscar Wilde: Ah well, I...

Ah well, I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

Source: On being told the...

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Oscar Wilde: The strength of...

Oscar Wilde: The strength of...

The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women. . . merely...

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Oscar Wilde: The Governor was...

Oscar Wilde: The Governor was...

The Governor was strong upon
The Regulations Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific...

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Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Oscar Wilde: Grief has turned...

Grief has turned her fair.

Source: Referring to the fact that a recently-bereaved...

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Oscar Wilde: But what is...

Oscar Wilde: But what is...

But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ... Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not...

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Oscar Wilde: Thinking is the...

Oscar Wilde: Thinking is the...

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other...

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Oscar Wilde: Yet each man...

Oscar Wilde: Yet each man...

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a...

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Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

Oscar Wilde: I hope you...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would...

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Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

Oscar Wilde: She is absolutely...

She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and...

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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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George Bernard Shaw: All professions are...

George Bernard Shaw: All professions are...

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

Source: The Doctor's Dilemma,...

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George Bernard Shaw: In literature the...

George Bernard Shaw: In literature the...

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid...

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George Bernard Shaw: Find enough clever...

George Bernard Shaw: Find enough clever...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a...

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George Bernard Shaw: Morality is not...

George Bernard Shaw: Morality is not...

Morality is not respectability.

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

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William Shakespeare: I owe him...

William Shakespeare: I owe him...

I owe him little duty and less love.

Source: Henry VI, Pt I, IV. iv. (34).
--...

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William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

William Shakespeare: Time's thievish progress...

Time's thievish progress to eternity.

Source: Sonnet 77.
-- William Shakespeare,...

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William Shakespeare: Being of no...

William Shakespeare: Being of no...

Being of no power to make his wishes good:
His promises fly so beyond his state
That what he speaks is all in...

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