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Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be...

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.

Source: Lord Darlington, in Lady...

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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: There are many...

Oscar Wilde: There are many...

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them...

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Oscar Wilde: One should never...

Oscar Wilde: One should never...

One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old...

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Oscar Wilde: The intellect is...

Oscar Wilde: The intellect is...

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is...

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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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Winston Churchill: If it is...

Winston Churchill: If it is...

If it is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Source: Said to his wife...

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Winston Churchill: Any 20 year-old...

Winston Churchill: Any 20 year-old...

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a...

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