Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Oscar Wilde: Civilisation is not...

Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One...

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Oscar Wilde: Every woman is...

Oscar Wilde: Every woman is...

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Source: Lord...

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Oscar Wilde: Death and vulgarity...

Oscar Wilde: Death and vulgarity...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain...

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Oscar Wilde: The only difference...

Oscar Wilde: The only difference...

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a...

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Oscar Wilde: There is something...

Oscar Wilde: There is something...

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the...

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Oscar Wilde: Children begin by...

Oscar Wilde: Children begin by...

Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive...

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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: Good resolutions are...

Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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Oscar Wilde: Women love us...

Oscar Wilde: Women love us...

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic...

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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: Talk to every...

Oscar Wilde: Talk to every...

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you...

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Oscar Wilde: Memory. . ....

Oscar Wilde: Memory. . ....

Memory. . . is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Source: Miss Prism, in...

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Oscar Wilde: I adore simple...

Oscar Wilde: I adore simple...

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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: The worst form...

Oscar Wilde: The worst form...

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny...

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Oscar Wilde: You should study...

Oscar Wilde: You should study...

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the...

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Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

Oscar Wilde: The fact is,...

The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is...

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Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Oscar Wilde: Duty is what...

Duty is what one expects from others.

Source: Lord Illingworth, in A Woman of No...

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Oscar Wilde: The way of...

Oscar Wilde: The way of...

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become...

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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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